1Lung cancer
In 1898, doctors began to suspect that smoking caused lung cancer, despite the fact that there were only 140 published cases of the then rare disease.
2. In the 1920s a Russian surgeon named Serge Voronoff would implant thin slices of monkey testicles into the scrotum of human patients in an attempt to improve their sex drive.
3. In 2003, an ER doctor in Idaho saved a patient's life by performing emergency surgery with a cordless drill in a church parking lot to relieve pressure on his brain caused by internal bleeding.
4. A Nepalese ophthalmologist named Dr. Sanduk Ruit has pioneered a surgical technique that restores eyesight without stitches in 5 minutes. Using this procedure, he has removed over 100,000 cataracts on poverty-stricken people over his 30-year career.
5. A Doctor's tie can transmit sickness between patients because ties hardly ever get washed.
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6Dr. Alois Alzheimer
In 1906 when Dr. Alois Alzheimer presented his groundbreaking research on the disease which would later be known as Alzheimer's Disease, the audience asked zero questions and made zero comments because they simply wanted to hear the next lecture (which was about compulsive masturbation).
7. An early Chinese surgeon named Hua Tuo used Cannabis mixed with wine as an anesthetic. As a result, the Chinese term for "anesthesia" (mázui 麻醉) literally means "cannabis intoxication."
8. In 2009, a transplant surgeon named Tomoaki Kato performed a 23-hour operation termed 'ex vivo surgery', where all of the patient's abdominal organs were removed and then reimplanted in order to excise a tumor.
9. Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States.
10. A dentist named Edgar Parker legally changed his first name to "Painless", when he was accused of breaking a false advertisement law by claiming that his dentistry was truly painless.
11Josef Mengele
A Nazi doctor named Josef Mengele sewed two twins together back to back in an attempt to create conjoined twins. The children died of gangrene after several days of suffering.
12. A female American surgeon named Dr. Mary Edwards Walker during the Civil War, stood on the Union front lines for nearly two years, including the wake of the bloody Battle of Chickamauga. She is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
13. A doctor named Duncan MacDougall once attempted to prove that the human soul had weight by placing dying patients on a giant scale at the moment of death.
14. Surgeons wear green or blue-colored scrubs because they're complementary to red (blood), thus allowing the surgeon to better visualize the patient's inside and avoiding eye strain, loss of concentration and the 'after effect' illusion.
15. After receiving a local anesthetic and root-canal treatment at his dentist, a 38-year old man has been experiencing a real 'Groundhog Day' type of memory loss. For the better part of a decade, he has woken up every morning thinking it is the day of his original dentist's appointment.
16Alexis Carrel
A surgeon named Alexis Carrel was able to keep a chicken's heart tissue alive for over 20 years without it being attached to a body, deeming the cells, "immortal."
17. The first female Athenian doctor (Agnodice) had to dress as a man in order to get her education and practice medicine because being a female doctor was a capital crime, but when she became the most popular doctor in town among women in her male guise, the other doctors accused her of seducing her patients.
18. A British naval doctor named James Lind figured out how to “treat” scurvy with lemons and oranges. He then published his findings which were well received. The British navy continued to supply sailors with less effective lime juice and scurvy continued as a major cause of death for a century.
19. A British Army surgeon named Rick Jolly in the Falklands conflict saved every life under his care, both British and Argentine. He was the only man decorated by both Britain and Argentina for his services in the war.
20. A neurosurgeon named Dr. Robert White performed a successful head transplant of a monkey in the 1970's. The monkey could hear, smell, taste and feel for several minutes.
21Dr. John Hall
In 2004, a dentist named Dr. John Hall was charged after he made female patients unwittingly swallow his semen during visits to his clinic. He told them he was "going to put something in her mouth that would taste funny, but would stop the bleeding."
22. An Italian brain surgeon named Claudio Vitale had a heart attack in the middle of an operation. He powered through it when he realized his patient would never recover if he stopped.
23. A UK heart surgeon named Mr. Francis Wells has pioneered a new way to repair damaged hearts after being inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's medical drawings.
24. An dentist named Ben L. Salomon who was serving in the US Army during World War 2 was shot 24 times while defending an aid station from the Japanese. Although he killed up to 98 attackers, allowing the wounded to be evacuated, his Medal of Honor was delayed because medical officers were not supposed to bear arms against the enemy.
25. In 1961, a surgeon named Leonid Rogozov diagnosed himself with acute appendicitis when was in Antarctica as part of a Russian expedition. With no other options, he performed the surgery on himself over 2 hours.
