9 min listen
The Unsung Hero of Heart Surgery
FromWitness History
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Dec 13, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
The African-American lab technician, Vivien Thomas, whose surgery helped save the lives of millions of babies but whose work went unrecognised for years. Claire Bowes has been listening to archive recordings of Vivien Thomas describing his long partnership with Dr Alfred Blalock, the man solely credited with inventing an operation in 1944 which helped manage a congenital heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot. (Photo: Vivien Thomas, US Surgical Technician, 1940)
(Audio: Courtesy of US National Library of Medicine)
(Audio: Courtesy of US National Library of Medicine)
Released:
Dec 13, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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