Oh please, all are American inventions?. Rubbish.
The man who invented beta blockers, Sir James Black, was a Scot, and developed them in his lab at Glasgow Uni (my old alma mater btw). Thats Glasgow, Scotland, not America. And more research in London. Thats London, England. And he has just died, I posted his death on FR myself.
The man who gave us the hip replacement did so in England in 1950. The American ‘invention’ was in fact a metal hip fifty years earlier, and even then a German had beaten the American by 49 years.
The man who gave us the CT scanner did so in England in 1967, FOUR YEARS before any American built one.
Defibrillator?. An Irishman (Northern Ireland) who invented his item in Belfast in 1957.
I WILL grant you the MRI, as it was partly invented by an American, although Sir Peter Mansfield also received a Nobel Prize for its invention. And it was Aberdeen Univ. that developed the first full body MRI. AND I incorrectly gave Herschel Smith (the pill) as British, when he was a US scientist who made his breakthrough research in Britain.
I NEVER said that all inventions were done in the US.
Hipe replacements??? The earliest recorded attempts at hip replacement (Gluck T, 1891), which were carried out in Germany, used ivory to replace the femoral head (the ball on the femur).[3]
“In 1940 at Johns Hopkins hospital, Dr.Austin T. Moore (1899-1963), an American surgeon, reported and performed the first metallic hip replacement surgery. The original prosthesis he designed was a proximal femoral replacement, with a large fixed head, made of the Cobalt-Chrome alloy Vitallium. It was about a foot in length and it bolted to the resected end of the femoral shaft (hemiarthroplasty). This was unlike later (and current) hip replacement prostheses which are inserted within the medullary canal of the femur. A later version of Dr. Moore’s prosthesis, the so-called Austin Moore, introduced in 1952 is still in use today.”
CT scanners ( and by the way CT refers to a method of analysis the first idea for which was done in the early 1900s by an Italian):
“The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield in Hayes, United Kingdom at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-rays. Hounsfield conceived his idea in 1967,[6] and it was publicly announced in 1972. Allan McLeod Cormack of Tufts University in Massachusetts independently invented a similar process, and both Hounsfield and Cormack shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine.[7]” ( NB that these are considental discoveries i.e. not delayed by time or effort)
Defib??:
“Defibrillation was first demonstrated in 1899 by Prevost and Batelli, two physiologists from University of Geneva, Switzerland. They discovered that small electric shocks could induce ventricular fibrillation in dogs, and that larger charges would reverse the condition.
The first use on a human was in 1947 by Claude Beck,[1] professor of surgery at Case Western Reserve University. Beck’s theory was that ventricular fibrillation often occurred in hearts which were fundamentally healthy, in his terms “Hearts are too good to die”, and that there must be a way of saving them. Beck first used the technique successfully on a 14 year old boy who was being operated on for a congenital chest defect. The boy’s chest was surgically opened, and manual cardiac massage was undertaken for 45 minutes until the arrival of the defibrillator. Beck used internal paddles on either side of the heart, along with procainamide, an antiarrhythmic drug, and achieved return of normal sinus rhythm.”
As to Pantridge who gave us the first portable defib device look at his education:
“After his liberation he worked as a lecturer in the pathology department at Queen’s University, and then won a scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he studied under Dr. F.N. Wilson, a cardiologist and authority on electrocardiography.”
So go do some research before you hurt yourself further