Post by KongoLisolo KL

Duty of Memory - Dr. Vivien Theodore Thomas: Born in New Iberia, Louisiana, on August 29, 1910 and died on November 26, 1985, this African-American surgical technician developed, in the 1940s, techniques used to treat childhood cyanosis, including Blalock-Taussig anastomosis. (Thomas was a surgical laboratory supervisor and professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He participated in the development of the « Blue Baby, 1944" operation, alongside surgeon Alfred Blalock and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig); "Thomas began his medical career in 1930 as an assistant in Alfred Blalock's laboratory at Vanderbilt University, where Dr. Blalock had trained his surgical assistant » Thomas's intelligence and exceptional skills as a researcher and surgical assistant were so impressive that Dr. Blalock offered him a position at Johns Hopkins University in 1941.