Galina Shatalova

Russian neurosurgeon (1916–2011)

In the history of medicine, Galina Shatalova is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Galina Shatalova as Russian neurosurgeon (1916–2011).

Galina Shatalova was born at Ashgabat in 1916. Her recorded nationality is Russia. She trained at Rostov State Medical 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 Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.

Galina Shatalova died in 2011, aged 95. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.

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