Jules Tinel
Jules Tinel (1879–1952), French neurologist remembered for Tinel sign, nerve regeneration research and early work on phaeochromocytoma.
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William Bainbridge
William Seaman Bainbridge (1870-1947), American surgeon, cancer educator, naval physician and early advocate of spinal analgesia in children.
John Durkan
John A. Durkan, American orthopaedic surgeon linked with the Durkan test and CTS gauge for diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome.
Harry Finkelstein
Harry Finkelstein (1883 – 1975) was an American Surgeon. Eponym - Finkelstein's Test (Modified Eichhoff test) to confirm De Quervain’s tenosynovitis
Sidney Farber
Sidney Farber (1903-1973) American pediatric pathologist. Childhood leukaemia chemotherapy, Farber disease, cystic fibrosis research
Critical Debrief: The Pitt Debrief
In this debut of The Critical Debrief, the team reflects on personal changes and the transition from Network 5 to a more independent, creative podcasting approach.
Achille Mario Dogliotti
Achille Mario Dogliotti (1897-1966), Italian surgeon. Pioneer of epidural anaesthesia (Dogliotti’s principle), pain therapy, cardiac surgery, and total extracorporeal blood circulation
Auto-appendicectomy
Auto-appendicectomy: three landmark self-appendectomy cases—Kane (1921), McLaren (1944), Rogozov (1961)—and what they reveal about surgery in extremis.
Köhler teardrop
Köhler teardrop is the pelvic teardrop seen on AP pelvis radiographs. Definition, anatomy, clinical use, history and eponymythology.
Fernand Cathelin
Fernand Cathelin (1873–1960), Paris urologist who pioneered caudal epidural anaesthesia (Cathelin’s method) and designed the urine-divider and air cystoscope.
Charles Dotter
Charles T Dotter (1920–1985): father of interventional radiology; coronary imaging pioneer, 1964 angioplasty, catheter thrombolysis, and stents.
Théodore Tuffier
Théodore Tuffier (1857–1929): Paris surgeon and innovator; thoracic/cardiac pioneer, early open-chest massage, valve experiments, spinal anaesthesia and Tuffier’s line.