Notable Health Care Givers: Physicians & Nurses: “Ch...-Cl...-”
educational posters for health classrooms, homeschoolers and professional offices.

Notable physicians and nurses ~

Graham Chapman
b. 1-8-1941; Leicester, England
d. 10-4-1989

Graham Chapman, who is best remembered as a comedian, actor, writer, and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe, was educated as a physician.

Graham Chapman quote ~
• “It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.”

Jean-Martin Charcot
b. 11-29-1825; Paris, France
d. 8-16-1893

Jean-Martin Charcot was a physician whose work “influenced the developing fields of neurology and psychology”. Charot's research described the different functions of the brain, the disease multiple sclerosis, and the how arteries behave in cerebral hemorrhages. Charcot was a notable teacher, attracting students (among them Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, and Alfred Binet) from many nations to his classes at the Salpetriere Teaching Hospital in Paris.

Charcot renamed paralysis agitans (shaking palsy) to Parkinson's Disease on behalf of James Parkinson.

Charcot quote ~
• “Disease is very old, and nothing about it has changed. It is we who change, as we learn to recognize what was formerly imperceptible.” De l’expectation en médecine.

Guy de Chauliac
c. 1300; Chaulhac, France
d. 7-25-1368; Avignon

The son of peasants, Guy de Chauliac, became such a famous physician for his surgical skills, that he was the attending physician for three popes.

• The Major Surgery of Guy de Chauliac
• Middle Ages posters

Anton Chekhov
b. 1-29-1850; Taganrog, Russia
d. 7-2-1904; Badenweiler, German Empire (tuberculosis)

Anton Chekhov, a Russian short story writer and playwright, is best remembered for his plays The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, said “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.”

Chekhov quotes ~
• “Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
• “When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.”
• “Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.”

• The Portable Chekhov, Anton Chekhov

Deepak Chopra
b. 11-22-1946; New Dehli, India

Deepak Chopra, whose father was a cardiologist and grandfather was an Ayurvedic physician, began his medical career as an endocrinologist. Today he is best known as a self help author on the subject of alternative medicine in Ayurveda, spirituality, and the mind-body connection.

Georges Clemenceau
b. 9-28-1841; Mouilleron-en-Pareds, France
d. 11-24-1929

Physician George Clemenceau is best remembered as the Prime Minister of France during World War I. It should be noted that during the Paris Peace Conference it would not be unusual for him to shout at the other heads of state (Woodrow Wilson for one) and storm out of the room rather than participating in further discussion. He was also a journalist and published Emile Zola's J'accuse in support of Dreyfus.

Georges Clemenceau quotes ~
• “America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
• “I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.”
• “War is much too serious a matter to entrust to military men.”