In the history of medicine, Boris Petrovsky is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Boris Petrovsky as Russian surgeon (1908-2004).
Boris Petrovsky was born at Yessentuki in 1908. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at Russian National Research Medical University, S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy and I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.
The recorded fields of work are surgery.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: USSR State Prize, Zhukov Medal, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Order of the Red Star.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Boris Petrovsky died in 2004, aged 96. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- USSR State Prize
- Zhukov Medal
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Order of the Red Star
- Order of the October Revolution
- Held posts at Russian National Research Medical University, S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy and I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
- Fields: surgery
