Who is the greatest doctor of all time?

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I nominate Avicenna(Ibn Sina).

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In terms of patient care or revolutionizing medicine?

If its the latter, I nominate Andreas Vesalius 👍
 
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Dr. Ben Carson should be up on the list.
 
I second House.

Really though, I would say Dr. DeBakey, perhaps the greatest surgeon to live.
 
I take back Vesalius.. I forgot about Dr. Jon Marshall from Hydroxycut :meanie:
 
Crud I thought we were going for tv docs. In which case I'd have to say the following were pretty tops.

Dr. Kelly Bracket (man), the head ED guy on EMERGENCY

Dr. Greg House (of House, M.D.) is of course a genius in his own right.

Dr. John Becker (of Becker) resembled my own personality, and I liked his comedics.

Dr. John Carter (of ER) was a role model due to his altruistic nature.

Dr. Alex Stone, the husband and pediatrician from the old Donna Reed Show. watched that on Nick at Nite when I was little, and that's when I first wanted to be a doctor.

Dr. Marcus Welby (of Marcus Welby, M.D.) of course cured his share of patients.
 
Florence Nightingale.

Wait.

What was the question?

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This is a super relative question (nothing wrong with that), because you must ask the question what makes a good doctor? Most of this list will be dominated by Arab/European/American doctors because they match what we ascribe to be good doctors. However, just because our medicine is more effective (in some ways), doesn't mean that an Asian/Native American/African doctor shouldn't have a shot at the title. I admit my knowledge of said doctors is limited, so the best Western doctors would be.

Hippocrates/the idea of Hippocrates: He's Jesus, but with medicine.
Osler: Really drove home some important ideas about what we know consider good medicine, good doctoring, appropriate patient involvement.
Ignaz Semmelweis: Really was the crux of a lot of medical reform. Directly, he showed that doing pathology rounds before OB rounds was a great way to kill mothers during pregnancy, and using a antiseptic was a great way to stop this from happening. Indirectly, he really staggered a lot of the old guard of medicine by showing that doctors COULD kill patients, and doctors could be worse for patients than no doctor at all.

Other Honorable Mentions:
Pasteur and his rival Robert Koch (technically Pasteur wasn't a doctor, and he clearly didn't care much for saving patients. Rather it was about killing disease. Still, he deserves a spot): Both helped propel vaccinations and germ theory.

Craziest/Funniest Doctor: Joseph Lister
Great story teller. Helped promote antiseptic by conducting a clinical trial that would make people's heads explode today. Basically, the way he put it was "I had a bunch of people needing amputations/surgeries. I took half, and applied my antiseptic formula. I took the other half, and didn't. The half that didn't died a lot more often."
 
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Of William Welch, dean of Johns Hopkins and reformer of American medical education:

"He disdained Yale's medical school; fifty years later he was asked to give a speech on Yale's early contributions to medicine and replied that there hadn't been any."
 
I nominate.

Dr. Albert Einstein.

Absolute. Genius.
 
NeuroChaos said:
I nominate.

Dr. Albert Einstein.

Absolute. Genius.
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Yeah, I mean he has a freaking medical school named after him, right?


But I think we are talking about physicians here, so he may not count.
 
Dr. Conrad Murray....MJ's Doc
 
BlueElmo said:
Yeah, I mean he has a freaking medical school named after him, right?


But I think we are talking about physicians here, so he may not count.
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Sick of this pre-med bias.

Doctor is not a very explicit term, People. Pre-meds may think it is but some crazy heads(ex. NeuroChaos) are offended by such categorization. Clarify that we are talking about Doctors with an M.D., not with a Ph.D.

With that note,:

M.D. : Dr. Harold Varmus

Ph.D.: Dr. Albert Einstein
 
Dr. Julian Subatoi Bashir, M.D., because he was genetically engineered, which "made him mentally superior to most humans, and greatly enhanced his physical abilities" (wiki)



a runner-up could be Dr. Phil though :nod:
 
NeuroChaos said:
Sick of this pre-med bias.

Doctor is not a very explicit term, People. Pre-meds may think it is but some crazy heads(ex. NeuroChaos) are offended by such categorization. Clarify that we are talking about Doctors with an M.D., not with a Ph.D.

With that note,:

M.D. : Dr. Harold Varmus

Ph.D.: Dr. Albert Einstein
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Whoa, buddy, don't get all sore there. I just thought we were talking about MD's.
 
BlueElmo said:
Dr. Ben Carson should be up on the list.
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Not a chance. Unless you're only including people who've been guests on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Any list of great neurosurgeons starts with Harvey Cushing.
Greatest living neurosurgeon? Gazi Yasargil, no brainer.
Get it? no brainer Oh, I kill me.
 
Please! You fools are crazy. We all know who the greatest doctor of all time is...


And I didn't even need to get an MD first...


They call me Doctor Love, but you can call me the love doctor.



[insert cheesy porno music]

:whistle: Bow Chicka Wow Wow :whistle:


Doctor Love: Did somebody say they needed a docta?

Housewife in distress (HID): Oh I do... Thank God you could make it Doctor Love!

Doctor Love: Well, I don't usually make house calls, but what seems to be the problem?

HID: I seem to have a pain right here...

:whistle: Bow Chicka Wow Wow :whistle:
 
now-a-days
everybody wants to act,

like they have something to say,
nothing comes out
when they move their lips,
but a bunch of jibberish



and mother****ers act like they forgot about Dre
 
0Complications said:
Please! You fools are crazy. We all know who the greatest doctor of all time is...


And I didn't even need to get an MD first...


They call me Doctor Love, but you can call me the love doctor.



[insert cheesy porno music]

:whistle: Bow Chicka Wow Wow :whistle:


Doctor Love: Did somebody say they needed a docta?

Housewife in distress (HID): Oh I do... Thank God you could make it Doctor Love!

Doctor Love: Well, I don't usually make house calls, but what seems to be the problem?

HID: I seem to have a pain right here...

:whistle: Bow Chicka Wow Wow :whistle:
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0C, what the heck are you doing on SDN? Go study!!!😡
 
BlueElmo said:
0C, what the heck are you doing on SDN? Go study!!!😡
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Ha ha. I am. I saw this thread though and couldn't resist. I did fight the urge to put a Dr. Love photo up though... So at least I showed some restraint...
 
You'd be a fool not to say Dr. Burke - the best Cardio Thoracic Surgeon that ever lived.
 
Dr. Cox, clearly.

I've learned lots of interesting lessons about the nature of medicine from him, accurate or not...
 
Wow this is a tough one but since these guys have not received any love yet I vote for Alfred Blalock and Vivian Thomas. Maybe not the greatest doctors ever on their own but probably one of the best if not the best duo.
 
Galen was pretty revolutionary. Especially given the time and circumstances in which he practiced. Just read about him 👍
 
How about William Harvey? Edward Jenner? We are forgetting some giants of medicine and medical-related fields.
 
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Who could forget Dr. Josef Mengele aka the Angel of Death? :laugh:

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Just look at that smile...
 
Charles English said:
Dr. Julian Subatoi Bashir, M.D., because he was genetically engineered, which "made him mentally superior to most humans, and greatly enhanced his physical abilities" (wiki)



a runner-up could be Dr. Phil though :nod:
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You win at life, sir. Dr. Bashir's accent alone qualifies him to be the greatest doctor of all time. Minus the whole genocide of the Changelings mishap...
 
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On a trip to Africa this guy concocted a wicked potion that sent me to another world.

So I have to give it to Umbatu.
 
Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy of Star Trek was the greatest fictional medical doctor of all time, crushing today’s champ Dr. Gregory House with better technology, skills, and bedside manner.

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Dr. Lee, of course. He founded this site.
 
bigbad said:
Who could forget Dr. Josef Mengele aka the Angel of Death? :laugh:

Josef-mengele.jpg


Just look at that smile...
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This guy was horrible. It's amazing how ruthless a person can be when given enough power. Humanity is sick...how can we call ourselves civilized when we practice mass-extermination against our own kind?
 
I vote for Doc Holiday. A great gunfighter in the Old West and a damn good doctor as well. Usually, if he drew his six shooter, he killed the guy. But if he only winged him, Doc Holiday would patch the guy up.
 
Chemdude said:
This guy was horrible. It's amazing how ruthless a person can be when given enough power. Humanity is sick...how can we call ourselves civilized when we practice mass-extermination against our own kind?
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I wish I could be that guy's dentist- no painkillers. Just me and the drill.
 
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