Daniel Hale Williams
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Daniel Hale Williams was a Black American surgeon and hospital founder. He founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States. He is known for being t
Williams c. 1900
Later photo of Williams
Williams' grave at Graceland Cemetery
Vivien Thomas
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Vivien Theodore Thomas was an American laboratory supervisor who, in the 1940s, played a major role in developing a procedure now called the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt used to treat blue baby syndro
Daniel Hale Williams
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Thomas' 1969 portrait by Bob Gee.
Vivien Thomas in the lab
Schematic representation of the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig anastomosis between the right subclavian artery and right pulmonary artery. A / initial anastomosis – B / modified anastomosis.