In the history of medicine, Ferenc A. Jolesz is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Ferenc A. Jolesz as Hungarian-American physician.
Ferenc A. Jolesz was born at Budapest in 1946. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Semmelweis University.
Antibiotics, imaging and the randomised trial defined twentieth-century medicine; evidence replaced authority as the standard.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Ferenc A. Jolesz died in 2014, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
