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who is the first african american to do open heart surgery?

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1. 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.
2. Little known fact.............. Dr.Hale died of a heart attack.He collapsed in the street and died in transport to a black hospital,when there was another one near that he could not be admitted to that would have saved his life.