[One name, two physicians. About Whipple's procedure and Whipple's disease].

The biographical silhouettes of two contemporary, but unrelated American physicians using the same name: Allen Oldfather Whipple and Gorge Hoyt Whipple are presented. Both significantly influenced their medical specialties. A.O. Whipple was a pioneer in modern surgery of the pancreas. His name is used as an eponym for resection of the pancreas head (Whipple's procedure). G.H. Whipple, the pathologist and physiologists received the Nobel Prize for his input into scientific evidence for the treatment of anemia. His name serves as an eponym for extremely rare disease of the bowel (Whipple's disease).