Pioneers and firsts to perform particular procedures

*Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation

*William DeVries, first permanent artificial heart transplant

*John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), first open heart surgery

*John Hunter, first aneurysm operation and founder of early schools of anatomy

*Theodore H. Schwartz, first center in New York City to use intraoperative MRI scanning        during endoscopic pituitary surgery

*Lall Sawh, C.M.T., F.R.C.S.(Edin.). Kidney transplantation pioneer in the Caribbean and  Latin America. Early proponent of Viagra.

*Michael Woodruff, transplantation pioneer.

*Paul Randall Harrington, first interior fixation of the spine by means of a Harrington rod.

*Paolo Macchiarini, first stem cell grown trachea transplant.

*Frederic E. Mohs, developed the Mohs Micrographic Surgery technique (MMS) aka Mohs  surgery in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions.

*Richard Lehman (surgeon), pioneered several orthopedic surgeries that are designed to  minimize scarring and lower re-injury chances.

Researchers and inventors in the field of surgery

*Moshe Gueron best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in    result of scorpion sting.

*Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), creator of radial keratotomy

*Gavril Ilizarov a Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or  reshape limb bones.

*Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery

*Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis

*Norman Bethune - Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of  universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.

*John Heysham Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine.

*William Stewart Halsted is remembered for his emphasis on aseptic technique during  surgical procedures.

Just to clarify...

After wasting a hell lot of my time over the internet searching what blogging is all about...finally..i have come to the conclusion...that...blogging is just like a session of deep meditation...a spiritual talk with the self...a serious fruitful introspection...your picnic with yourself in solitude...the GOD withing speaking himself...its a perfect way to vent it all out...in a way you truly want to say or the people to know...blogging can never give you satisfaction if you are behind money or fame or any shit like that...it has got nothing to do with that...afterall...life is too short...but this session of blogging seems unending...eternal peace...!!!...i write this just to clarify my stand over blogging and how my perception regarding blogging as changed significantly...from understanding it to be a "money making tool" to feeling its spiritual stroke....and i am amazed how i feel...its like my brother...to whom i can say anything i want to....i feel at home here...hope to get as many new friends i can with this....i will write on anything and everything that will cross my mind...regardless of what the people want to or love to read or hear...i am my own machine...i will do what i want...i want more and more of thinking...creativity and talks about innovations and all the crazy stuff about which i am always curious...lol...i mean EVERYTHING!!!.....and i feel sooo HAPPYYYY!!!
LIFE IS A GIFT..FEEL HAPPY

9 ways to change your life....upside down

1.  When you wake up just ask:  “what do i want in my life for today as if its my last day??”

2.  But dont forget...results demand focussed effort that is..action and execution.

3.  An ocean is made up of a basic unit called a water drop...start small..achieve small.

4.  Self-Discipline...practice it.

5.  DONT YOU STOP KID!!!

6.  To make it happen,you must first have to believe it.

7.  Thoughts are infectious...and it breeds...stay positive.

8.  Helping others gives you fulfillment.

9.  DONT FALL...you got to have balance....