Nina Starr Braunwald belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Nina Starr Braunwald as American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher.
Nina Starr Braunwald was born at Brooklyn in 1928. Her recorded nationality is United States. She trained at Grossman School of Medicine.
Antibiotics, imaging and the randomised trial defined twentieth-century medicine; evidence replaced authority as the standard.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
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.
Nina Starr Braunwald died in 1992, aged 64. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
