Medicine:Famous people in healthcare

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Famous people in healthcare are famous for many different reasons. For physicians see: List of physicians.

Nurses

England

  • Florence Nightingale OM, RRC — A celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician.

United States

  • Mary Martha Reid — Florida's "most famous nurse and Confederate heroine."[1]

Respiratory therapists

Canada

  • Susan O'Connor — A Canada curler from Alberta.

United States

  • Tom Araya — Respiratory therapist famous through his band Slayer.
  • Efren Saldivar — Murdered 60+ people while working in Brownsville, Texas as a respiratory therapist.
  • Ronald G. Beckett — Famous for advancing science in Mummy Science.
  • Mary Ann Vecchio — The subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.

References

  1. Revels, T.J. (2004). Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women During the Civil War. University of South Carolina Press. p. 28. ISBN 9781570035593. https://books.google.com/books?id=UwzvoKAhEtEC. Retrieved 2015-04-10.