Breakthrough!

how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
Jim Murphy
Book - 2019

Explores the history of how in 1944 Dr. Alfred Blalock, Dr. Helen Taussig, and Blalock's African American assistant Vivien Thomas successfully invented the surgical procedure that saved infants suffering from a heart defect that gave them oxygen-deficient blood and a blue appearance.

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Main Author: Murphy, Jim, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
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