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Some of you might consider one of these following facts about Vivien Thomas really useful and interesting. As you know, Vivien Thomas was an African-American surgical-technician who developed the procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock’s experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,  Read More ... »