Vivien Thomas: The Black Lab Tech Who Taught Heart Surgery 1910–1985
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Vivien Thomas: The Black Lab Tech Who Taught Heart Surgery 1910–1985
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In 1944, a Black laboratory technician with no medical degree quietly coached a famous surgeon through the world’s first “blue baby” operation, saving a dying infant and laying the foundation for modern heart surgery. Vivien Thomas’s hands, mind, and unrecognized genius turned an impossible procedure into routine practice, yet for decades his name remained absent from textbooks and headlines.
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