Health Care Practitioners Posters: Physicians & Nurses: “N...-O...-”
for health classrooms, homeschoolers and professional offices.

Notable physicians and nurses ~

Haing Somnang Ngor
b. 9-22-1940; Cambodia
d. 2-25-1996; Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Haing Ngor is best known for winning the 1985 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role of Cambodian journalist and refugee Dith Pran in The Killing Fields.

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Charles Nicolle
b. 9-21-1866; France
d. 2-28-1936; Tunis, Tunisia

Bacteriologist Charles Jules Henry Nicolle received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. Nicolle, whose father was a doctor, received his M.D. from the Pasteur Institute (1893), was also taught and was a writer of fiction.

Florence Nightingale
b. 5-12-1820; Florence, Italy
d. 8-13-1910

Florence Nightingale, nurse, writer and statistician, came to prominence during the Crimean War for her pioneering work in nursing. Nightingale was called “The Lady with the Lamp” after her habit of making rounds at night to tend injured soldiers.

In 1860 Nightingale established her nursing school at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, laying the foundation for professional nursing with the establishment, the first secular nursing school in the world.

The annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday and the Nightingale Pledge, taken by new nurses, was named in her honor.

“I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.”

BTW- she was named for the city of her birth.

Michel de Nostredame,
Latininzed to Nostradamus
b. 12-14/21-1503; the south of France
d. 7-2-1566

Michel de Nostredame, known as Nostradamus, was a apothecary and reputed visionary best known for his book Les Propheties (“The Prophecies”), the first edition of which appeared in 1555 and has rarely been out of print.

Antonia Novello, MD
b. 8-23-1944; Puerto Rico

Physician and public health administrator Antonia Novello served as fourteenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993. Novello is the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General.

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William Osler
b. 7-12-1849; Canada
d. 12-29-1919; England (Spanish flu epidemic)

Willam Osler has been called the “Father of Modern Medicine” for insisting that students learn from seeing and talking to patients and the establishment of the medical residency.

He was one of the founding doctors of Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Mehmet Oz
b. 6-11-1960; Cleveland, OH

Mehmet Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon and author best recognized from his frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, CNN, and other networks.