Today’s Doodle, illustrated by guest artist Chau Luong, honors the 110th birthday of Dr. Tôn Thất Tùng, the innovative Vietnamese surgeon who revolutionized the approach to liver resection surgery for doctors around the world.
Dr. Tùng was born on this day in Hué, Vietnam in 1912—a time when the French colonial government forbade Vietnamese people from pursuing advanced medical education. As an adult, Dr. Tùng protested this harsh policy and ignited an equal education movement. His efforts eventually forced the colonial government to allow Vietnamese students to take residency admissions exams in 1938.
In his four years of postgraduate school, Dr. Tùng dissected more than 200 livers and became the first to conduct such meticulous research on the organ. His deep knowledge of liver anatomy helped him realize the traditional approach to liver surgery—a method that took three to six hours to complete—was unnecessarily risky and cumbersome. Dr. Tùng founded a new surgery method that minimized bleeding by tightening the hepatic veins before the operation, shortening the operation down to only four to eight minutes. His groundbreaking technique, commonly known as the “Tôn Thất Tùng Method,” is renowned by surgeons globally for its ability to reduce blood loss and save countless lives.
Happy birthday Dr. Tôn Thất Tùng! Thank you for pushing the boundaries of surgery to change the medical field forever.
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