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Charles McBurney

Surgical Advances

• McBurney was an Irish American medical pioneer famous in his field for his early reports about appendicitis.
• If you've ever known anyone who had their appendix removed, the doctor diagnosing it would have first identified the point of greatest abdominal pain. That point is called McBurney’s point and the cut they make to get the appendix out is called McBurney’s incision.