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HBO. Release. May 30, 2004. ( 2004-05-30) Something the Lord Made is a 2004 American made-for-television biographical drama film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas (1910–1985) and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899–1964), the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery.
Gairdner Foundation International Award (1959) Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and ...
Russell L. Blaylock (born November 15, 1945) is an author and a retired U.S. neurosurgeon. Blaylock was a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center .
Blue baby syndrome, Atrial septostomy. Dr. Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 [1] – November 26, 1985) [2] was an American laboratory supervisor who in the 1940s developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease). [3] He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal ...
This article was first published in 2016 and is from the Miami Herald Archives. As a newly licensed physician in the mid-1960s, Dr. James W. Bridges began to practice medicine in Miami just as ...
University of Mississippi Medical Center. / 32.328853; -90.173159. University of Mississippi Medical Center ( UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. UMMC, also referred to as the Medical Center, is the state's only academic medical center .
A Las Vegas restaurant tried to boost sales by hosting "Bluey Day" Unfortunately, the only thing that was blue were the kids who were disappointed by the event. "Many traveled across town to this ...
The Blalock–Hanlon procedure was a cardiothoracic procedure created in the 1950s. The Blalock–Hanlon procedure was created to enhance intracardiac combinations. A majority of the surgeries using this procedure were performed in pediatrics on infants ranging from one day to five months of age.
John Kingsley Lattimer, MD (October 14, 1914, in Mount Clemens, Michigan – May 10, 2007, in Teaneck, New Jersey) was a urologist who did extensive research on the Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy assassinations, becoming the first medical specialist not affiliated with the United States government to examine the medical evidence related to ...
Blalock–Taussig shunt, BTT shunt: Specialty: Cardiothoracic surgery: Uses: Pulmonary atresia, tetralogy of Fallot: Complications: Chylothorax, phrenic nerve injury, pulmonary oedema, shunt stenosis, subclavian steal syndrome: Approach: Thoracotomy or sternotomy: Types: Classical, modified