Vivien T. Thomas
Vivien T. Thomas, L.L.D. was supervisor of surgical laboratories and instructor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was instrumental in the development of the "blue baby" operation in 1944, with surgeon Alfred Blalock and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig. This lifesaving operation to correct a congenital heart defect in babies became a major landmark in pediatric cardiac surgery.
Thomas began his career in medicine in 1930, as an assistant in the laboratory of Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University where Dr. Blalock trained him as his surgical assistant. Thomas' intelligence and outstanding ability as a researcher and surgical assistant was so impressive, that Dr. Blalock requested Thomas to follow him to Johns Hopkins University in 1941.
During Thomas's long year career at Johns Hopkins, he developed several operative techniques, designed surgical instruments, and supervised the surgical laboratories for over 35 years.
Many of the surgeons Vivien Thomas trained credit him with teaching them the surgical technique which placed them at the forefront of medicine in the United States. His surgical technique was so skilled and flawless, that after examining the nearly undetectable suture line from a complex operation, Dr. Blalock remarked, "Vivien, this looks like something the Lord made."
Although Vivien Thomas never received a formal degree in medicine, his enormous contributions to surgery and surgical education were officially recognized in 1976, when he was awarded the honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Johns Hopkins University. Today his portrait hangs in the lobby of the Blalock Building at The Johns Hopkins Hospital across from the image of Alfred Blalock. (source: US National Library of Medicine)
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A reminder that we all enter this world by being granted the gift of grace. It is up to all of us to find our place, to use those gifts always for the greater good and fight the force of evil and tyrannical rule. To at times go against the masses and stand up for the rights that build the stronghold of bridges to enable others to cross to the other side. A beautiful and moving story that also questions the moral and ethical code of just how far in the name of science do we go, the danger of the unknown to be faced on the "other side". Yet, the endless possibility that can lead to further exploration and ability to save more lives, for those "blue babies" of both animal and human, to which we are in gratitude that were "turned pink" by the mastery of hands, the likes previously unseen of Dr. Vivien Thomas and .Dr Blalock.
ReplyDeleteA reminder that we all enter this world by being granted the gift of grace. It is up to all of us to find our place, to use those gifts always for the greater good and fight the force of evil and tyrannical rule. To at times go against the masses and stand up for the rights that build the stronghold of bridges to enable others to cross to the other side. A beautiful and moving story that also questions the moral and ethical code of just how far in the name of science do we go, the danger of the unknown to be faced on the "other side". Yet, the endless possibility that can lead to further exploration and ability to save more lives, for those "blue babies" of both animal and human, to which we are in gratitude that were "turned pink" by the mastery of hands, the likes previously unseen of Dr. Vivien Thomas and .Dr Blalock.
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