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Born October 17, 1956 • Toronto • Canada
Died June 2, 2008 (aged 51)
Joycelyn Elders
Joycelyn Elders
American physician and government official
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Rob Ford
Canadian politician
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Cecil G. Sheps
Canadian-born physician, researcher, and educator
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman
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Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
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William Farr
British physician
Sara Josephine Baker.
Sara Josephine Baker
American physician
David Satcher
David Satcher
American physician
Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim
American physician and anthropologist
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Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
Portrait of Colonel John Shaw Billings, M.D.
John Shaw Billings
American surgeon and librarian
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Johann Peter Frank
German physician
Sir John Simon
Sir John Simon
British surgeon
William Osler
Sir William Osler, Baronet
Canadian physician
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
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Lucien Bouchard
Canadian politician
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
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Anderson Abbott
Canadian doctor and surgeon
Illustrated page from In Flanders Fields featuring the poem's opening lines beside a field of red poppies and two wooden crosses, with a decorative letter I adorned with poppy flowers.
John McCrae
Canadian poet