Top 10 Best Physicians Ever

The Top Ten
Charles Horace Mayo
William James Mayo
Ron Paul Ronald Ernest Paul is an American author, physician, and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013.

Really? He was a gyno. An important service, for sure. But not sure he did anything groundbreaking. Will stand corrected if so advised.

Hippocrates Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
James Parkinson
Hans Asperger
Elizabeth Blackwell
Benjamin Rush
Jonas Salk
Alexander Fleming

The Newcomers

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The Contenders
Rosalind Franklin
Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
Frederick Banting Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter and Nobel laureate noted as the first person to use insulin on humans.
Vivien Thomas
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
Christiaan Barnard
Henry Heimlich
David Ho
Anthony Fauci
Albert Schweitzer
Ivan Pavlov
Mary Edwards Walker
Joseph Lister
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