Priscilla White
Priscilla White (1900 - 1989) was an American physician. White Classification of Diabetes in Pregnancy (1949, 1965, 1978)
Category Medical Specialty
John Barton
John Rhea Barton (1794-1871) was an American Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponym: Barton fracture (1838). Intra-articular distal radius fracture.
Arthur Ernest Guedel
Arthur Ernest Guedel (1883 – 1956) was an American anesthesiologist. Guedel Oropharyngeal airway and classification system
Malgaigne Fracture
Malgaigne fracture is an unstable fracture of the pelvis. First described in 1847 by French surgeon Joseph François Malgaigne (1806 – 1865)
The Great Fluid Debate
John Myburgh hypothesises that resuscitation fluids cause more harm than they save lives.
T. Philip Ayre
Thomas Philip Ayre (1901-1979) was an English anaesthetist. Ayre is most well-known for his eponymous T-piece, a device which revolutionised anaesthesia for babies and children.
Harold Arthur Hill
Harold Arthur Hill (1901-1973) was an American radiologist who worked with Maurice David Sachs (1909-1987). Eponym: Hill-Sachs lesion (1940)
Mary Holt
Mary Clayton Holt (1924 - 1993) was an English cardiologist. Holt-Oram syndrome (1960)
Dickinson W. Richards
Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. (1895 - 1973) Nobel Laureate and celebrated American Physician. Famously known for his work in development of cardiac catherisation and physiology with André Frédéric Cournand and Werner Theodore Otto Forßman.
Werner Forssmann
Werner Theodore Otto Forßman (1904 - 1979) was a German Doctor, Nobel Laureate and a pioneer of interventional cardiology.
Nancy B. Esterly
Nancy Burton Esterly (1935 - 2017) was an American pediatric dermatologist. Esterly-McKusick syndrome (1971)
Dock’s murmur
Dock’s murmur: Early diastolic murmur when there is a severe stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery. 1967 William Dock