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Check out the top 10 best doctors in the world

There are many doctors in the world who are recognized as having made great contributions to medicine. Let's learn about the most famous doctors who have made great contributions to world medicine through the article below.

1. Ancient physician Hippocrates - Father of Medicine

Hippocrates – father of modern medicine and considered the greatest physician of his time. He is the author of the "Oath of Medical Ethics" (Hippocratic Oath) which is still used in many countries including Vietnam.
He realized that each person will have symptoms of the disease at different levels and have different abilities to resist the disease. At the same time, he was the first physician to believe that human thoughts, thoughts, and emotions come from the brain, not from the heart as many people of his time thought.

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2. Dr. Edward Jenner – Father of vaccines

Many people think that Louis Pasteur is the father of vaccines because he is famous for discovering bacteria, infections and creating rabies vaccines. However, in reality, this credit belongs to Edward Jenner - an honorary doctor in the Royal Society of London, who confirmed the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing human diseases before humanity knew about them. existence of viruses and bacteria.
The history of world medicine has recognized Edward Jenner's contribution to creating vaccines that help protect billions of people around the world. Currently, the whole world recognizes that the most effective way to prevent diseases is vaccination. This medical achievement helps many people around the world avoid death from large-scale epidemics.

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3. Dr. Rene Laennec – Invented the stethoscope

Rene Laennec was born in 1781, in France, ranked 52,065th in the world and 61st in the list of famous doctors. He invented the stethoscope while caring for an overweight patient whose heartbeat could not be heard or felt.

He invented a tool to amplify the sound of the heartbeat, which is the stethoscope. Thanks to the stethoscope invented by Rene Laennec, diagnosis and medical examination are more effective.
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4. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis – Obstetrician

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis is a Hungarian obstetrician. He affirmed that puerperal fever is caused by infection. And he proved that the high death rate of mothers was because doctors did not soak their hands in Calcium Chloride solution before delivering babies.
He is recognized in world medicine as the person who paved the way for the theory of asepsis and the theory of hospital infections.

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5. Doctor Louis Pasteur - Discovered the rabies vaccine

Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in the city of Dole (western France). He graduated with honors from Besancon University (France). Then he continued to study physics and chemistry at Paris Polytechnic University, then successfully defended his Doctor of Science thesis.
He completed the greatest works of his life such as: finding the cause of infectious diseases in animals: chicken cholera, rabies... finding vaccines to immunize against chicken cholera, anthrax, especially rabies. In just one year, with this success, more than 2,500 people bitten by rabid dogs were vaccinated and their lives were saved.

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6. Doctor Joseph Lister – Father of antiseptics

Many patients who seemed to have been saved thanks to surgery later gradually died from complications due to surgery. No one understands the reason why, much less how to prevent this tragic situation.
And finally, the person who found the solution was doctor Joseph Lister when he discovered the role of antiseptics in controlling infectious diseases. This is an important milestone in surgical history and is also one of the earliest efforts to control and control surgical infections. Lister's life was a great contribution to medicine.

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7. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell – The first female professor of obstetrics

Blackwell was the first woman to be awarded a medical degree in North America (1849). This was something that had never happened in medical history up to that time.
In 1869, Elizabeth Blackwell helped organize the National Health Society in London (UK) to provide free medical examination and treatment for the poor as well as establish a medical school for women in London ( London School of Medicine for Women). In 1875, she was appointed the first female professor of obstetrics at the London School of Children's Medicine.
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8. Doctor Frederick Banting – Discovered the hormone Insulin

Frederick Banting was a Canadian physician, physicist and physiologist. He discovered the pancreatic hormone Insulin, used in the treatment of diabetes. He was born in Alliston (Ontario) and studied at the University of Toronto.
From 1921 - 1922, he, along with John Macleod (Scottish physiologist) and his colleague Charles Best, discovered Insulin. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for that great discovery.

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9. Dr. Charles Drew – Discovered how to separate and preserve plasma

Charles Drew - African American doctor who discovered how to separate and preserve blood plasma. This discovery created the foundation for the establishment of blood banks, which played an important role during World War II (1939 - 1945). It was he who created the first blood banks, saving thousands of lives in the most costly war in history.
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10. Dr. Henry Gray – Lays the foundation for surgery

Dr. Henry Gray was an English anatomist and author of the famous book Gray's Anatomy, which laid the foundation for anatomical science. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of 25 and was also in charge of surgery at St. George's Hospital.

In 1861, he was the main candidate for the position of assistant surgeon, but unfortunately he contracted smallpox while caring for a boy and died at a very young age, 34 years old.
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