Healthcare Heroes

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v3•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Edward Jenner

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small pox vaccine

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Hippocrates

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Hippocratic oath

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Joseph Murray

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first kidney transplant

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Frederick Hopkins

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vitamins are necessary for good health

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Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier

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HIV

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William Harvey

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circulatory system

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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

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x-ray

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Watson and Crick

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DNA

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Frederick Banting

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insulin

#10

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Louis Pasteur

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Germ theory

#11

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Alexander Fleming

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penicillin

#12

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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microscope

#13

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James Lind

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citrus fruit to prevent scurry

#14

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Sir Humphry Davy and Horace Wells

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nitrous oxide as anesthesia

#15

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William Morton

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ether as an anesthetic

#16

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Rene Laennec

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stethoscope

#17

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James Blundell

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first successful blood transfusion

#18

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Joseph Lister

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antiseptic/ asepsis

#19

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Karl Landsteiner

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discovery of blood antibodies

#20

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Michael Debakey

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pioneering procedures in the field of cardiovascular defects

#21

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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first female physician

#22

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Florence Nightingale

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created of modern nursing

#23

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Clara Barton

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founder of the Red Cross

#24

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Robert Jarvik

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first successful permanent artificial heart