Yvonne Gilli is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Yvonne Gilli as Swiss physician and politician.
Yvonne Gilli was born at Baar in 1957. Her recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Antibiotics, imaging and the randomised trial defined twentieth-century medicine; evidence replaced authority as the standard.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Yvonne Gilli is still working, and the assessment of the contribution is not yet complete.
