• after Pete Allen retired from professional baseball he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and later became a physician?
• from 1836 to 1855, Chinese painter Lam Qua painted pre-operative portraits of physician Peter Parker's patients, particularly those with large tumors or other major deformities?
• a 2003 medical study by Peter Pronovost, an intensive care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, on the use of simple checklists helped save 1500 lives and US$100 million?
• Chilean Eloísa Díaz was the first female doctor in South America?
• prostate cancer staging is the process by which physicians evaluate the spread of prostate cancer?
• in 1887, Norwegian Labour Party politician and physician Oscar Nissen claimed that only 10% of women had libido?
• the 17th century Puritan physician Alexander Leighton incurred the wrath of King Charles I for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by his Star Chamber to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off?
• whether Gaius Stertinius Xenophon, a Roman physician, was involved in the death of Claudius is debated to this day?
• the Banksia menziesii (pictured), named after 18th-century physician and naturalist Archibald Menzies, is also known as the Firewood Banksia for its burning properties and abundancy?
• the Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture commemorates a Australian Army general, physician and historian who was killed in a plane crash during World War II?
• the physician Marie Equi became an anarchist after being attacked by police, while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World?
• Marie Heim-Vögtlin, Switzerland's first woman physician, was required by law to have her husband's consent in order to be allowed to work?
• Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is named for the famous Jewish philosopher, rabbi and physician Maimonides (pictured)?
• Anderson Ruffin Abbott (pictured), the first licenced Black Canadian physician, attended Abraham Lincoln's death bed?
• Barry Wood, who played quarterback at Harvard and became a physician and microbiologist, was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Sciences?
• South African rugby player Jannie du Plessis is both a physician and professional athlete?
• French physician Edme Castaing is thought to have been the first person to commit murder using morphine, 18 years after it was discovered?
• pioneer Omaha physician George L. Miller served as president of the Nebraska State Historical Society after being labeled a "raving maniac" by the press?
• Charles Wesley Shilling, a physician in the United States Navy, was the first person to transfer from a submarine to the surface in a rescue diving bell (pictured)?
• Gideon Brecher (1797 - 1873) was a Jewish Austrian physician and writer who wrote what is most likely the first scholarly article on circumcision, Die Beschneidung der Israeliten, etc., in 1845?
• Joseph Schröter, a 19th century Prussian military doctor, was a noted mycologist who discovered and described many previously unknown species of flora and fungi?
• Jean Armand de Lestocq, a French physician, wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth?
• Józef Mianowski, a 19th-century Polish academic and personal physician of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, falsified university records to give alibis to Polish insurgents in 1860s?
• Dr. Hunter McGuire was a physician who amputated General Stonewall Jackson's arm during the American Civil War and later helped found several hospitals and a prominent medical school in Richmond, Virginia?
• anti-conscription activist Ivan Toms served as the only physician for approximately 60,000 people in a Cape Flats shanty town during South Africa's Apartheid era?

Facts on topics related to Physician

Medicine

• Harvard medical graduate Brenda Taylor reached the 2004 Olympic final in the 400-meter hurdles?
• poison, over its 6500-year history, has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination?
• Body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
• body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
• flutamide is a medicine used to treat prostate cancer?
• Kadambini Ganguly (pictured) was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female conventional doctor in South Asia?
• metolazone is a medicine used to treat congestive heart failure and hypertension?
• toso is a medicinal sake drunk during Japanese New Year celebrations?
• the Chinese tallow tree is used to make soap, candles, and medicine?
• the Tree of Hippocrates is a plane tree in Kos under which, according to legend, Hippocrates taught his pupils medicine?

Doctor of Medicine

• Finnish Swede Gustav Orreus was the first Doctor of Medicine ever commissioned in Russia?
• Helen Abbott Michael, originally trained as a pianist, became a plant chemist and earned her MD after a chance purchase of Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics on a trip to Europe?
• for helping endow a professorship of botany at the University of Oxford, James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in 1731?

Medical school

• Shaw University’s Leonard Hall housed the first class of four year African-American medical students in the United States?
• Alex Niño quit medical school at the University of Manila in 1959 to pursue his childhood goal of becoming a comic book artist?
• Angus Goetz played for Buffalo in the National Football League on the weekends while attending medical school at the University of Michigan?
• Paul T. Jordan became the youngest mayor in the history of Jersey City only three years after graduating from medical school?
• Tan Teck Guan Building (pictured) was the site of Singapore's first medical school, and has been conserved as a national monument?
• Vladimir Shukhov, often compared to Edison and Eiffel for his innovative work on metallic structures, decided to abandon engineering at the age of 24 and enrolled at a medical school instead?
• eighteen years ago, medical schools in the US "covered" sleep medicine in an average total teaching time of just two hours?

Pediatrics

• British paediatrician June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury is commemorated in the coat of arms of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, as a supporter holding a staff of Aesculapius entwined with a double helix rather than the traditional snake?
• Swedish physician Nils Rosén von Rosenstein is considered to be the founder of modern pediatrics with his 1764 book The diseases of children, and their remedies?
• the "dancing doctor", pediatric toxicologist Michael Shannon, starred in a 2008 production of the Urban Nutcracker, his eighth year appearing in the annual performance?

Psychiatry

• Robert Redford made one of his last guest-starring appearances in a television series in a 1963 episode of the ABC psychiatric drama Breaking Point?
• Victorian psychiatrist L. Forbes Winslow was involved in the cases of Jack the Ripper, Percy Lefroy Mapleton, Florence Maybrick, and Amelia Dyer?
• Nic Waal, who rescued Jewish children in Norway from the Holocaust, started her own institute for pediatric psychiatry when turned down for a job because her appearance was too messy?
• one of the founders of modern Russian psychiatry, Pavel Jacobi, brother of the painter Valery Jacobi, participated in the January Uprising in Poland and volunteered in the Army of the Vosges led by Giuseppe Garibaldi?

Pathology

• the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?

Ophthalmology

• Australian ophthalmologist Sir Norman McAlister Gregg discovered the link between rubella and congenital disorders in newborn infants after overhearing several of his patients discussing their illness during pregnancy?
• Waardenburg syndrome is named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg?
• John Freke was the first ophthalmic surgeon?