The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
Harvey Cushing Quotes
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
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| Birth: | 8th April, 1869 |
| Death: | 7th October, 1939 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Neurosurgeon |
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Harvey Williams Cushing was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an American neurosurgeon. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first person to describe Cushing's disease. Together with Ernest Sachs, he is known as the "father of neurosurgery." He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School and earned his medical degree in 1895. In 1911, he was appointed surgeon-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. He became a professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School starting in 1912. He was responsible for the Pulitzer prize-winning biography Life of Sir William Osler. From 1933 to 1937, when he retired, he worked at the Yale School of Medicine as Sterling Professor of Neurology.
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