Nobel Laureate Surgeons: The surgical achievements that have been honored with the Nobel Prize exemplify the specific surgical approach of solving the problem by circumscribed and controlled instructions into the body of individuals. An extraordinary strategy! It has given modern medicine new tools of serving lives and bringing relief to suffering patients though it has also drawn attention and resources away from alternative, non-surgical treatment strategy. Theodor Kocher was the first surgeon in 1909 to be conferred the prestigious Nobel Prize. Earlier than that surgery was still a manual craft and surgeon were barbers.
It was separate from the learned profession of medicine and less prestigious. Surgeons were mainly dealing with emergencies like broken bones, lancing boils and skin tumors etc. Surgical intervention was associated with horrors of pain and infection. Once anesthesia…
