26Haing Ngor
A doctor named Haing Ngor survived 4 years of genocide under the Khmer Rouge by pretending to be uneducated. After moving to America, he starred in a movie - as a man faking stupidity to survive the Khmer Rouge. He won an Oscar.
27. A reckless neurosurgeon named Dr. Christopher Duntsch in Texas killed and paralyzed several patients over 18 months in spite of many formal complaints of his malpractice by fellow neurosurgeons.
28. A female doctor from Brazil, after being fed up with the burglars jumping over her fence and stealing her belongings, taped a dozen HIV-infected syringes atop her metal fence with a warning board saying, “Wall with HIV positive blood. No trespassing.”
29. In London, Ontario a flame of hope was lit in 1989 as a tribute to Dr. Frederick Banting and all the people that have lost their lives to diabetes. The flame will remain lit until there is a cure for diabetes.
30. In 2009, when a doctor named Richard Barista was served divorce papers by his wife, he proceeded to sue her for the return of the kidney he gave her 8 years ago. He requested her to pay $1.5 million for the organ he had donated and insisted that his cash-for-kidney claim was the direct result of his wife's behavior.
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31Dr. Howard Jones
Dr. Howard Jones in 1978 was forced into retirement due to rigid age restrictions for surgeons at Johns Hopkins. Rather than end his medical career, Jones moved to Virginia, where in 1981 at the age of 70, he performed the first IVF case in the United States. He died in 2015 at the age of 104.
32. In 2015, a Michigan doctor named Dr. Farid Fata was sentenced to 45 years in prison for giving chemotherapy to patients who didn't actually have cancer.
33. In one of the most complicated surgeries every performed, pediatric surgeons Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye and Dr. Darrell Cass, removed a baby from a womb to cut out a tumor, placed the baby back inside the womb. Several weeks later the baby was delivered healthy.
34. Dr. Patricia Bath restored sight to millions of people suffering from cataracts thanks to her invention of the Laserphaco Probe. Among her multiple firsts, she was the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and first African-American female doctor to receive a medical patent.
35. Modern surgeon sponges have x-ray visible stripes because it is one of the most common surgical items that surgeons forget to remove and they are often left it inside the patients.
