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    The American College of Surgeons (ACS) is a professional medical association for surgeons and surgical team members, founded in 1913. It claims more than...
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    received the same medical training as physicians before specializing in surgery. In some countries and jurisdictions, the title of 'surgeon' is restricted...
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  • The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a politically conservative non-profit association that promotes conspiracy theories and...
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    The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading...
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    North America. In the US, the majority of college, university, and residency programmes, and even the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, still...
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  • Donald Dafoe (category American transplant surgeons)
    Donald Christian Dafoe is an American surgeon and research scientist. The eldest son of a surgeon, Dafoe graduated from Appleton West High School in Appleton...
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  • The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is a professional society that represents plastic surgeons in the United States and Canada. The ASPS was...
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    Garth Philip Davis (born January 28, 1970) is an American bariatric surgeon, physician, and author. Davis specializes in weight management and is known...
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    Classification of surgical instruments helps surgeons to understand the functions and purposes of the instruments. With the goal of optimizing surgical results...
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  • Alfred Blalock (category American surgeons)
    Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of...
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    The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is an orthopedic organization. Founded at Northwestern University in 1933, as of 2015 AAOS had grown...
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  • was first described by the George Bushar Markle IV (1921–1999), an American surgeon, in 1985. Acute appendicitis on Medscape Richard F. LeBlond, Richard...
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    The Surgeon (2001) is a suspense novel by Tess Gerritsen, the first of the Maura Isles/Jane Rizzoli series. A terrifying new serial killer begins stalking...
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    hernia: surgical anatomy, embryology, and technique of repair". The American Surgeon. 72 (1): 42–8. doi:10.1177/000313480607200110. PMID 16494181. S2CID 26111951...
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    a review of management strategies and discussion of the 'No Zone' approach". The American Surgeon. 79 (1): 23–9. doi:10.1177/000313481307900113. PMID 23317595...
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  • approach to medicine and surgery. He has been called the "father of modern surgery". The American surgeon Philip Syng Physick (1768–1837) worked in Philadelphia...
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    Michael DeBakey (category American cardiac surgeons)
    – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President...
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  • with the American Medical Association and American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (now the American Society of Plastic Surgeons) was fostered...
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  • John Ronald Brown (category American surgeons)
    16, 2010) was an American surgeon who was convicted of second-degree murder after the death of a 79-year-old patient in his care. The son of a physician...
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  • Adams (born Rudalgo Alonzo Adams; April 21, 1954) is a former American cosmetic surgeon, author, and television presenter. Rudalgo Alonzo Adams was born...
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    Phillips, EH; Morgenstern, L; Hiatt, JR (1998). "The clinical spectrum of splenic infarction". The American Surgeon. 64 (2): 182–8. PMID 9486895. Grigoriadis...
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    W. D. Chappelle Jr. (category American surgeons)
    was an American physician and surgeon in South Carolina who opened the People's Infirmary, a hospital and surgery practice for African Americans in Columbia...
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  • Allen Whipple (category American surgeons)
    1881 – April 6, 1963) was an American surgeon who is known for the pancreatic cancer operation which bears his name (the Whipple procedure) as well as...
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    Massachusetts) was an American surgeon, well known for describing McBurney's point in appendicitis. Charles McBurney was born in 1845. He graduated in the arts from...
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  • Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) is a professional qualification to practise as a senior surgeon in Ireland or the United Kingdom....
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  • at the Wayback Machine Liang MK, Lo HG, Marks JL (February 2006). "Stump appendicitis: a comprehensive review of literature". The American Surgeon. 72...
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  • of the American College of Surgeons, "FACS" (Fellow, American College of Surgeons). The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS)...
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    Gene Mutation". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 January 2011. And there the bones remained, studied in 1909 by the renowned American surgeon Harvey Cushing...
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    diagnose, prevent, or cure an ailment. Ambroise Paré, a 16th-century French surgeon, stated that to perform surgery is, "To eliminate that which is superfluous...
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  • The American Society of Breast Surgeons is a professional medical society whose active members are general surgeons who dedicate all or part of their...
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