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Did you know ...

• 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?