James Patrick Anthony McManus was brought up in a small mining village in Scotland. He graduated as dux of his class and went on to medical school at Edinburgh University. He did his internship in Edinburgh and Cambridge. He then served in the Royal Army Medical Corp as part of his National Service in Germany where he met his beautiful wife, Rachel Chenard. Jim went on to do his medical residency in Edinburgh.
From there, the family moved to Boston when Jim was awarded a Carnegie fellowship at Harvard. After two years he returned to Edinburgh as senior lecturer in the department of medicine at Edinburgh University. In 1974 the family moved to Quebec City, Canada where Jim became Professor of Medicine at Laval University. Five years later,
John Rutledge started his education being taught through his father, who immigrated from Ireland and became his new life as a physician. When he had reached the age of twenty-one he crossed the Atlantic to study in London at Middles Temple. While he was living in England he pursued to graduate in English Practice.
served two tours there and came back a decorated war hero. After his return to
William Harvey one of the first founding fathers of modern medicine to correctly state how blood circulated the body through the dissection of animals. Born in Folkstone, England April 1, 1578 he was the oldest son out of ten brothers born to a very wealthy family. His father Thomas was a successful businessman turned Mayor and his mother Joane a housewife. Harvey earned is education at a small elementary school moving along to the King’s Grammar School. William at the age of 15, in 1593 enrolled himself in the University of Cambridge as a medical student on a six year full ride scholarship. He attended Cambridge till the age of 21 where he enrolled in the University of Padua where
In 1958, Graeme began his medical career as a Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. In 1961, he specialised as a registrar in General Surgery (Neurosurgery) and Otolaryngology at the
In 1842 Macdonald took a break from his responsibilities. He traveled to Scotland to visit his relatives, this would be a trip that would change his life forever. It was this time in Scotland that Macdonald met his cousin Isabella Clark, Macdonald?s future wife. The two got along really...
His college years took place during the height of the Vietnam War, which he personally supported. Subsequently, he joined the United States Army Reserve Officer Training Corps, but unfortunately his military career was short-lived due to his poor eyesight. After graduating in 1969 with a b...
During his last year before attending medical school, Doyle went to Feldkirch, a school in Austria. While
family in Lexington for two years before returning to Kilmichael. He took on farm work in Indianola in
In 1959 his family moved to Long Beach, Indiana where he attended first, a Catholic Elementary School (Notre Dame), and then a private Catholic boarding school (La Lumiere in La Porte, Indiana). John then entered Harvard with aspirations of becoming a history professor. After graduating from Harvard, summa cum laude, after only three years, He then attended the School of Law at Harvard. It was at Harvard law school that John discovered his passion for law and graduated, magna cum laude, with a J.D. In 1979. While at Harvard Law School he also he was also the managing editor of the Harvard Law Review (John Roberts Biography).
After he graduated, he became an Assistant Professor in Genetics at the University of Alberta. In 1969, David Suzuki won a Steacie Memorial Fellowship for the best young Canadian scientist, and also he became a professor at the University of British Columbia until his retirement in 2001, when he became a Professor Emeritus, and he still holds this title.
He was rejected by the California Institute of Technology and Harvard, but he received a scholarship to the University of Indiana for a Ph.D. In 1950, he received his doctoral degree in Zoology for his work on bacteriophage viruses. From there, Watson moved to Copenhagen, where he was a Merck Fellow of the National Research Council as he continued his research in virues. (Bagley).
Many discoveries and achievements have been made in medicine, however, conquering pain must be one of the very few that has potentially affected every human being in the world. It was in 1846 that a young Boston Dentist, Dr. William T.G. Morton eliminated the pain of surgery. Dr. Morton used ether, a gas that when used properly provides safe and effective anesthesia. An anesthetic is a substance used to deaden pain or produce a state of anesthesia. Its impact on the future has been shown through the social sciences of culture, sociology, and psychology. The development of anesthetics started as early as 1298 and is still being improved and studied today, doctors like Morton have made a very positive impact on medicine.
With the creation of Medicare in 1966 in order to expand access for the elderly to the American healthcare system, the ways in which medicine and its corresponding industries were conducted were irrevocably changed. Prior to its inception, only 65% of people over 65 actually had proper health insurance, as the elderly paid three times as much for healthcare as young people (Stevens, 1998). The private medical sector had much more control over who they would treat, how much they would charge, and more; the passing of Medicare freed up the elderly to have reasonable access to healthcare as a consequence of a lifetime of paying into the system.
James Howard Meredith was born on the date of June 25,1933. James Meredith, brother of 9 siblings, grew up on a farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi. He attended high school in Kosciusko as well. Straight out of high school, he joined the Air Force, where he spent nine years in the service. After he got out of the military he attended Jackson State College, an all-black college(“James Meredith Biography”). James Meredith had a huge impact on society because of his going to the University of Mississippi, breaking the racial barrier, and being a role model to all the children who thought that were not good enough to be able to make a difference in a world of discrimination. James Meredith has forever changed racial issues.
Chicago because of a job he accepted as an MD at some University. His family