American Experience - Season 15 Episode 8
Chronicling the unlikely partnership between a white surgeon and a black "technician" that led to a procedure to correct blue-baby syndrome in 1944. The principals: Vivien Thomas, a black man with only a high-school diploma, and Alfred Blalock, the patrician chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Blalock pioneered the surgery to correct the congenital heart defect, but it was Thomas who devised to procedures that were used. And they did it at a time, narrator Morgan Freeman says, when the two "could not share the same lunch table in the Hopkins cafeteria."
First Air Date : 1988-10-04
Last Air date : 2025-03-25
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
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- Season 15 : Episode 32003-01-13
- Season 15 : Episode 42003-01-14
- Season 15 : Episode 52003-01-15
- Season 15 : Episode 62003-01-20
- Season 15 : Episode 72003-01-27
- Season 15 : Episode 82003-02-10
- Season 15 : Episode 92003-02-24
- Season 15 : Episode 102003-04-07
- Season 15 : Episode 112003-04-21
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