Vivien Thomas: master craftsman, gifted teacher, and unsung hero

Adhering to the advice of his close friend, medical school roommate, and future author of internal medicine's most authoritative textbook, Dr. Tinsley Harrison, Dr. Blalock moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to enter the newly established general surgery residency program at Vanderbilt University H...

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Published inThe American surgeon Vol. 81; no. 2; pp. 118 - 120
Main Authors Joyner, Alisha, Yeo, Charles J, Maxwell, Pinckney J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC 01.02.2015
Subjects
Blalock
Colleges & universities
Heart Defects, Congenital - surgery
History, 20th Century
Hospitals
Humans
Internships
Laboratories
Medical research
Patients
Pediatrics
Pediatrics - history
Pulmonary arteries
Surgery
Surgical Instruments - history
Taussig
Thomas
Thoracic Surgery - history
United States
Veins & arteries
United States
Nashville Tennessee
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Summary:Adhering to the advice of his close friend, medical school roommate, and future author of internal medicine's most authoritative textbook, Dr. Tinsley Harrison, Dr. Blalock moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to enter the newly established general surgery residency program at Vanderbilt University Hospital. In 1945, Dr. Blalock published a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association describing the first three patients to receive the Blalock-Taussig shunt.1 Although Vivien Thomas was instrumental in the development and success of these procedures, he was not mentioned in the report; only Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig received recognition.
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ISSN:0003-1348
1555-9823
DOI:10.1177/000313481508100220