Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved Blue Babies and Changed Medicine Forever
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved Blue Babies and Changed Medicine Forever
Murphy, Jim
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Condition: New, UPC: 9780547821832, Publication Date: Tue, December 1, 2015, Type: Hardcover ,
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3In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalock's African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions.

The stories of this medical and social breakthrough and the lives of Thomas, Blalock, and their colleague Dr. Helen Taussig are intertwined in this compelling nonfiction narrative.

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