Department: Extraordinary People

Fight for human rights around the world: during his lifetime, forensic pathologist Dr. Robert Kirschner would right others' wrongs.

When not on duty at UCSF, nurse Bethany Certa switches her nursing shoes for dancing shoes!

Checkups, eye care, dental, medication – thanks to Lillian Cingo, RN, and Lynette Coetzee, it's all there on South Africa's Phelophepa Train.

Want to know what it's like to drive a mobile ophthalmology clinic across northern Ontario?

Elisabeth Ravaud is a French radiologist with a very different clientele. She X-rays works of art, revealing forgeries, mistakes, and new information.

Are you "dog dim"?

Nurse Julia Plotnick came to the aid of Rwanda, Japan, Romania, and Uganda.

He was made a baron by Napoleon for his courage and contributions, and is the inventor of the first real ambulance system …

Read about the strange world of a nurse humorist.

A Soprano pharmacist brings passion to her art and her work.

Making a place for the sweat lodge: Elaine Johnston bridges two cultures to heal mind, body, and spirit.

Erin Puck knows what pediatric patients need because she's been one of them.

Dr. John McCrae wrote one of the best-known poems of World War I, "In Flanders Fields."

Being a transplant recipient gives you a second chance at life – and the responsibility to live it to the fullest.

Working for International Aid has brought one radiologic technologist far a field, and she shares her expertise with others wherever she goes.

The founder of modern physiology, and the person credited with demonstrating complete circulation of the blood …

Stephen Barrett's Quackwatch.com patrols the internet for quackery crimes.

The five women of Team No Boundaries comment on their attempt to climb Mount Everest.

Though he's most known to the world for his poetic prophecies, he was also a medical doctor, specializing in working with plague victims.

This doctor, considered a "madman" by some for his criticism of famous doctors of the past, is the author of the first comprehensive and systematic textbook of human anatomy.