"Best"/Most Respected MDs

[bigdan]

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For those into the "name game", can residents give a little insight into who the superstars of each specialty are, and where that given star is employed?

For example, I assume that Ben Carson is near the top of the list for pediatric neurosurgery, but who else is doing big things?

dc

 

[beyond all hope]

For EM, Rosen is one of the biggest names. I don?t know where he?s at right now, but he?s still out there.

 

[Dubin]

Eric Topol

 

[Winged Scapula]

Eric Topol

Ahem...who's he? Assuming he's a BIG NAME...I don't recognize it or his field.

 

[Seaglass]

Dr. Van Nostrand

 

[VentdependenT]

Art Vandalay as well.

 

[bigdan]

Thanks for replies; can you include what field and where?

dc

 

[southerndoc]

Ahem...who's he? Assuming he's a BIG NAME...I don't recognize it or his field.

Eric Topol is one of the biggest names in cardiology. He's at the Cleveland Clinic.

 

[DrQuinn]

Kimberly Cox, MD
Surgery

I believe Penn State University.

Q, DO

 

[terpgirl]

YAY Ben Carson He is/was my pediatric neurosurgeon, my parents took me to him before he was famous and my parents had many wonderful things to say aout him--a very nice and personable guy!!

 

[Mirror Form]

YAY Ben Carson He is/was my pediatric neurosurgeon, my parents took me to him before he was famous and my parents had many wonderful things to say aout him--a very nice and personable guy!!

Didn't he recently murder those middle-eastern conjoined twins?

 

[Mirror Form]

MilitaryMD - Navy

(sorry, that's an inside joke)

 

[Winged Scapula]

Eric Topol is one of the biggest names in cardiology. He's at the Cleveland Clinic.

Ahh...thank you. Good to know for us "older" folks. 😀

 

[Winged Scapula]

Kimberly Cox, MD
Surgery

I believe Penn State University.

Q, DO

Tee-hee. I'm not so sure anyone here would agree with ya, but what the hey?!! 😀

 

[DireWolf]

Dr. Van Nostrand

from The Clinic, right?

 

[edinOH]

edinOH, MD

Practice limited to the pelvic exam of 18-25 y/o hot women and breast implantation surgery.

Now accepting new patients.

 

[Matheau]

Doug Ross, MD -- Emergency Medicine.

 

[DrQuinn]

edinOH, MD

Practice limited to the pelvic exam of 18-25 y/o hot women and breast implantation surgery.

Now accepting new patients.

Rumors abound that Dr. edinOH is writing a textbook on "Monkey love and how to appreciate your ape." Supposedly will be the "Harrison's" of bestiality.

Q, DO

 

[sean wilson]

D. David Glass, Dartmouth (anesthesia)

Barash, Yale (anesthesia)

Bailey, Loma Linda (pediatric cardiac transplant surgery)

 

[edfig99]

Art Vandalay as well.

he's in transplant right? (importer/exporter)

 

[RADRULES]

There are many in radiology depending on the subspecialty.

Neurorads: Yousef (JHU), Castillo (UNC), Osborne (Utah), Stoller
Body Imaging: Fishman (JHU), Brant (UVa), Lee (UNC)
MRI: Semelka (UNC)
IR: Too many to mention
Bone radiology: Helms (Duke), Resnick (UCSD)
Pedi: Swischuk (UTMB)
Nucs: Anyone at Mallinkrodt

There are many more which I can't think of.

 

[MoCookiess]

Art Vandalay as well.

ha ha ha... made my day

 

[Docxter]

Neurorads: Yousef (JHU)

There are many more which I can't think of.

It's Dave Yousem, not Yousef. And Stoller is MSK, not Neuro.

 

[Adapt]

Andrew Still, MD - General surgeon. 👍

 

[DoctorDoogie4]

Peds Ortho - Dr. Alvin Crawford, MD and Dr. Charles Mehlman, DO - prominent peds ortho surgeons that are always busting out research and teaching

ER - Dr. Herbert Flessa,MD - founded first EM residency program at Univ. of Cincy

 

[MacGyver]

Didn't he recently murder those middle-eastern conjoined twins?

No, unless you claim that every doctor who has lost a patient in surgery is a "murderer"

🙄

 

[Mirror Form]

No, unless you claim that every doctor who has lost a patient in surgery is a "murderer"

🙄

There's a reason no other neurosurgeons would take the case, the two girls shared a vessel in their brain that is considered death to operate on. I have a hard time believing that the operation was just about the patients and not about Carson's ego.

 

[radiojimi]

he has achieved some incredible success before (that's how he got to be so renown) - exactly with cases such as that which others claimed to be impossible. If he believed it was impossible, he obviously wouldn't have attempted it, and I'm sure he undertook the operation with the family's fully informed consent. Provision of medical care is fraught with risk; you win some, you lose some, but you always try to do what you think is best for the patient.

Perhaps if the operation had been attempted by someone with a less established track record, you could challenge his/her clinical judgment, but given his prior history of success and the family's wishes, one can hardly call the decision to attempt surgical treatment murder.

 

[Docxter]

he has achieved some incredible success before (that's how he got to be so renown) - exactly with cases such as that which others claimed to be impossible. If he believed it was impossible, he obviously wouldn't have attempted it, and I'm sure he undertook the operation with the family's fully informed consent. Provision of medical care is fraught with risk; you win some, you lose some, but you always try to do what you think is best for the patient.

Perhaps if the operation had been attempted by someone with a less established track record, you could challenge his/her clinical judgment, but given his prior history of success and the family's wishes, one can hardly call the decision to attempt surgical treatment murder.

There is no question that ego boosting was a significant part of this surgery. Whether this is ethically OK or not, I don't know.

I guess you don't know much about the case. Actually, there was no family consent, since the twins were in their late 20s and gave consents themselves. The operation was done in Singapore and it was done by a Singapore surgeon and Ben Carson. Later, they were summoned to court (Carson didn't go) because of charges of grossly downplaying the risks of the operation when getting "misinformed" consent. The other issue was that when halfway through the surgery they realized that separation wasn't going to be possible, they didn't stop and continued. I guess Carson surely wouldn't be taking a vacation in Singapore any time soon. This was what I read a few months ago and I don't have any updates.

 

[whupdido]

What about Eugene Braunwald? The cards dude up at Brigham and Women's and Mass Gen. Editor of Harrison, and Braunwald's Heart Disease.

 

[IMGforNeuro]

Regarding the Twin separation surgery, they shared the post. part of the superior sagittal sinus and also infratentorial vasculature. What makes it very difficult is not only the separation of this sinus and creating one for the other twin, the area of confluence of sinuses is very critical, also because of deep veins eventually draining there. From someone with a neurosurg background I felt it was 'playing god', my seniors (all practising neurosurgeons felt the same). Trying to create new vasculature in a anomaly of an already complicated vasculature with existing technology is 'playing god'. Intellectually i would be very happy had this succeeded, but it was like 'aiming to reach another galaxy when we have not reached mars'.
There are many great names in different subspecialities of medicine like
Robert H. Wilkins , Peter Black (neurosurgery)
J.P. Mohr , Frank Yatsu (Vascular neurology)
Antonio Demassio (behavioral neuro)
Michael Aminoff (neurology- movement disorders)

 

[radiojimi]

I admit my ignorance of the details of the case.

Even with further research on my part however, only the responsible surgeons can know to what extent their own egos played a part in their clinical decision making process.

I'll bet it's been a painful lesson for all involved though.

Bad outcomes (defined as an unexpectedly adverse clinical outcome) are always a terrible shame.

My apologies to the OP for contributing to a digression. I'll make no further comments on this matter.

 

[IMGforNeuro]

I know of a very similar case from my country.
Dr Baruah was the chief of cardiothoracic surgery in a big institute in Assam (East part of India). He had received top class training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (arguably among the top institutes in asia). His department was working on valve replacement and cardiac transplant for a long time.
They worked a lot on pig models of heart transplant along with cardiologists and immunologists. There was a patient of cardiomyopathy in dire need of a heart. They decided to transplant a pig's heart on the patient despite warning and against the opinion of many other specialists. They also had not published some of their researches , just to maintain secrecy.
They went ahead with the transplant , a procedure which he wanted to pioneer. But the patient died, could not take the heart. He was sued.
The Medical Council of India cancelled his licence. He was sentenced to a few years prison on criminal charges. He is mentioned in India as a classic example of a doctor with god complex.

 

[ZephyrX]

Good thread but i always thought that there are more famous departments than individual physicians these days. Plus with the pace that leaders in each field jump from hospital to hospital, wouldn't it be impossible to try to track them down?

 

[Leukocyte]

Any distinguished FMGs/IMGs (ahem-Caribbean grads-ahem)?

 

[IMGforNeuro]

Dr Setti S. Rengachary (Prof emeritus Neurosurgery, Wayne State Univ) was a FMG from India.
Chief Editor of the textbook, Neurosurgery Vols 1,2 &3 (along with Dr Robert H Wilkins) which has been and still is the bible of neurosurgery for surgeons all over the world and among the earliest comprehensive textbooks of nsurg.

 

[BellKicker]

I know of a very similar case from my country.
Dr Baruah was the chief of cardiothoracic surgery in a big institute in Assam (East part of India). He had received top class training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (arguably among the top institutes in asia). His department was working on valve replacement and cardiac transplant for a long time.
They worked a lot on pig models of heart transplant along with cardiologists and immunologists. There was a patient of cardiomyopathy in dire need of a heart. They decided to transplant a pig's heart on the patient despite warning and against the opinion of many other specialists. They also had not published some of their researches , just to maintain secrecy.
They went ahead with the transplant , a procedure which he wanted to pioneer. But the patient died, could not take the heart. He was sued.
The Medical Council of India cancelled his licence. He was sentenced to a few years prison on criminal charges. He is mentioned in India as a classic example of a doctor with god complex.

Very cool story. Thanks.

 

[Whisker Barrel Cortex]

John Juhl, one of the original authors and editors of the first attempt at a complete radiology textbook, Paul and Juhl's (its the radiology book in MDConsult). One of the pioneers of early radiology. Just retired last summer at age 89 from the University of Wisconsin. I had the pleasure of staffing out chest x-rays with him. Great personality. Still made all the techs laugh with his stories.

 

[Apollyon]

Any distinguished FMGs/IMGs (ahem-Caribbean grads-ahem)?

Jack Cush, Rheumatology, UT-Southwestern (St. George's, 1981, and a founding member of the American College of Rheumatology; find him under the chapter on autoimmune disease in Harrison's)

 

[DrQuinn]

Dr. Giggles - Hollywood
Dr. Zhivago - Somewhere in the Eastern Bloc
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Tampa General Hospital
Dick Van **** - Wherever Diagnosis: Murder is being filmed
Dr. Evil - Space

Q, DO

 

[Energon]

I believe you forgot the most famous:

Dr. Dre: Trauma (inflicting mostly), West coast.

 

[Leukocyte]

Dr. Nick Riviera - General Surgery - Springfield, U.S.A

Author of "Hello Everybody, and you will never loose your lisence".

 

[flighterdoc]

Paul Auerbach, Wilderness med

 

[Andrew_Doan]

MilitaryMD - Navy

(sorry, that's an inside joke)

That's funny.

 

[DrQuinn]

I believe you forgot the most famous:

Dr. Dre: Trauma (inflicting mostly), West coast.

Inglewood. Ignlewood's always up to no good.

Q, DO

 

[DrQuinn]

Nurse Betty - Your nearest Blockbuster.

Q, DO

 

[Energon]

Inglewood. Ignlewood's always up to no good.

Q, DO

I believe that is Inglewuuuuurd

 

[DrDre']

There's been no rat-a-tat-tat from me and the homies. Just chillin with Snoop, catching the last Friends show

 

[abords]

Dr. Gau
Dr. Jaffe
Mayo Clinic Cardiologists

 

[MacGyver]

Obviously none of you guys have ever met Ben Carson. He's one of the most humble and down to earth people you'll find.


The facts of the case are these:

1) Before the surgery, the surgical team went public claiming that the possibility of death as a direct result from the surgery was as high as 90%

2) The twins went thru extensive psych counseling and were cleared of depression by multiple psychiatrists.

3) The twins were absolutely adamant that even if death was the result of the surgery, they'd still rather take the chance than stay conjoined. They stated this MULTIPLE times in the press conference before the surgery.