# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harvey-cushing
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:00.887Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Harvey Williams Cushing was born April 8, 1869, and became the first surgeon to work exclusively on the brain and spine — a specialty that didn't exist before him. He developed techniques that dropped operative mortality rates and made neurosurgery a credible field rather than a last resort. Along the way he identified the pituitary disorder now called Cushing's disease. He was also a pathologist, a writer, and a draftsman who sketched what he saw in the operating theater. He spent years writing a three-volume biography of physician William Osler. Cushing died October 7, 1939, having built the foundation every brain surgeon since has stood on.