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Partners of the heart : Vivien Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock : an autobiography
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Visitors to the Blalock Building at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center are greeted by portraits of two great men. One, of renowned heart surgeon Alfred Blalock, speaks for itself. The other, of highschool graduate Vivien Thomas, is testimony to the incredible genius and determination of the first black man to hold a prof ...more
Visitors to the Blalock Building at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center are greeted by portraits of two great men. One, of renowned heart surgeon Alfred Blalock, speaks for itself. The other, of highschool graduate Vivien Thomas, is testimony to the incredible genius and determination of the first black man to hold a prof ...more
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245 pages
Published
1998
by University of Pennsylvania Press
(first published 1985)
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A challenging read because of medical terminology, but eye-opening regarding open heart surgery and the part Vivien Thomas played in developing groundbreaking surgical techniques; without a medical degree!
HEAVY on the medical terms, this book actually held my interest a lot more than I thought it would. Honestly, this would have been a 3.5 for me but it was surprisingly not as dry as I thought so I rounded up. Disclaimer: I did start skimming through the medical parts.
Vivien Thomas had graduate high school and was getting ready to enter college and hoped to continue to med school. But fate, and the Great Depression, intervened. He got on with Alfred Blalock in a school in Nashville and moved with ...more
Vivien Thomas had graduate high school and was getting ready to enter college and hoped to continue to med school. But fate, and the Great Depression, intervened. He got on with Alfred Blalock in a school in Nashville and moved with ...more
Vivien Thomas basically represents how hands-on learning and practice lead to new procedures and tools in surgery. Learn by doing. Dr. Bialock instructs Vivien Thomas at first but they eventually become interdependent partners. We owe a lot of the advances in cardiac surgery to these surgeons' experiments on dogs.
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