Milton H. Erickson is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Milton H. Erickson as American psychiatrist (1901–1980).
Milton H. Erickson was born at Aurum in 1901. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
The recorded fields of work are psychiatry.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
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.
Milton H. Erickson died in 1980, aged 79. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: psychiatry
