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A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

Timeline of Events

1842

3.30.1842

Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.

1886

3.29.1886

Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

1946

12.9.1946

The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" begin with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.

1987

10.21.1987

Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.