[voice over] The Apgar test. The Whipple procedure. The DeBakey clamp. So many of the tools we use in our hospitals every day are named after the people who invented them. Even diseases used to be named after the people who discovered them. But a medical board in the 1970s discontinued that practice claiming that no one could "own" a sickness. As altruistic as the profession is, doctors are human. If we do something that could change the face of medicine, we want our name on it.
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