Medical Innovators

Medical Innovators gathers the physicians, scientists and nurses whose discoveries and devotion shaped the practice of medicine and the care of the sick. The group reaches from Hippocrates, whose ethical ideals still guide physicians, to Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine, Louis Pasteur's germ theory and Florence Nightingale's reform of nursing and hospital care. What unites them is careful observation, a commitment to evidence and compassion for those who suffer. Many persevered through doubt and opposition before their ideas were accepted, yet their work saved countless lives and laid the foundations of modern medicine, surgery and public health.