A scientific revolution: ten men and women who reinvented American medicine

Introduction: a revolution in American medicine

Mary Elizabeth Garrett: equity and excellence

John Shaw Billings: building medicine for a new century

William Henry Welch: medicine through the lens of science

William Osler: philosophy of being a physician and patient-centered teaching

William Stewart Halsted: victory wrought from defeat

Jesse William Lazear: the ultimate sacrifice

Max Brödel: art applied to medicine

Dorothy Reed Mendenhall: hardship and discrimination

Helen Taussig: the founder of pediatric cardiology

Vivien Thomas: something the Lord made