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was it a black man to do the first open heart surgery???

If you all check out this name you will find the TRUE....."Dr. Daniel Hale Williams" or if you get a chance to watch the movie "SOMETHING GOD MADE"!!! A black man was the first....

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1. I watched that movie, and it was a great movie!
2. On this date in 1893, the first successful American open-heart surgery was performed by a Black Doctor. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams completed the operation on a young man named James Cornish. He had been rushed to Provident Hospital in Chicago with a stab wound. Sometimes open-heart surgery is referred to as an invasive procedure
3. A black man helped with the first open heart surgery which was performed on a baby. His name was Vivien Thomas. There is a movie on HBO called Something the Lord Made. It tells you all about that. It's pretty good.
4. thats what is says in the black history month commercials i dont know the name but they said it was the first to do opne heart...
5. Why is his colour more important than his skill as a doctor? Compare with this below Th efirst heart transplant was done by Christiaan Barnard - and guess what!! Whoopee!! He was WHITE!! That's right!! WHITE!! See what I mean?
6. yes!
7. ok from the website i checked out dr. daniel hale willams was the 1st do perform open heart surgery, and the PATIENT was a black man, james cornish....not the dr. http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/danielwilliams.html
8. Lets get a few FACTS straight -Daniel Hale Williams was biracial, so he was as much white as he was black even though he mostly claimed black over white. -He didnt actually perform open heart surgery. Surgery to the pericardium is not open heart surgery (open chest, yes; open heart, no). It is like saying you tied your foot when you actually tied your shoe which encased your foot. -The first true heart surgery was done by a German doctor, Ludwig Rehn. And surgery to the pericardium, which is what Williams did, was done earlier by a Spanish doctor, Francisco Romero (treated pericardial effusion in 1801) and the surgeon of Napoleon's army, Dominique Larrey. Another American surgeon, Henry Dalton in St. Louis performed the same surgery (and, ironically, on a black stabbing victim) as Williams 2 years earlier, with both patients recovering. -Be proud of what he was able to do for the black community (two nursing schools for black nurses, the first integrated hospital, and serving by Grover Cleveland as the Chief of surgery of Freedman's Hospital), rather than being proud of urban legends. Being credited with is not the same as actually doing.
9. yeah guys...most of the world knows that Dr. Williams did not perform the first open heart surgery. If you define open heart surgery as surgery on the actual heart, Williams did not do that. When he was performing the surgery, he noticed a small nick on the heart from the knife but decided to let it heal on its own because he didnt want to subject the heart to any more trauma. And because it had not been done before. If you define open heart surgery as surgery to the pericardium, Williams was not the first person or even the first American to do it. Nearly 100 years earlier, Romero and Larrey were doing it successfully, on and off the battle fields. Larrey even did it so often that he learned from his own mistakes and developed better methods, which were probably the ones that Williams and Dalton used when they treated their stab victims. So, um, no it was not a black man who performed open heart surgery, unless Romero or Larrey were black.