Open AccessEphraim McDowell
Author(s) -
Othersen Hb
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/01.sla.0000124382.04128.5a
Subject(s) - courage , compassion , medicine , courtesy , frontier , law , political science
To identify those personal qualities which enabled Dr. Ephraim McDowell to be successful as the first surgeon in the world to remove a large ovarian tumor.