The Unknown Black Heroes Who Saved Thousands of Lives

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Alfred Blalock is a name known to every medical student, doctor and parent of a baby with Tetralogy of Fallot. Christiaan Barnard became a worldwide celebrity after performing the first human heart transplant. But neither of these surgeons would've achieved their remarkable feats without the support of two unsung heroes who never received their due praise until much later.

Hamilton Naki and Vivien Thomas were separated by thousands of kilometres but had three things in common, tremendous intelligence, and inability to access formal education and the colour of their skin. Due to the fact they were black men working in the 1940s-60s, their names didn't appear on scientific publications and their accomplishments were not recognised until the twilights of their careers.

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References:

Hamilton Naki
The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61579-8/fulltext
The Royal College of Surgeons of England: https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/003588414X13814021679915

Vivien Thomas
Vanderbilt: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/mstp/person/vivien-t-thomas/
J Med Biography: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0967772015601566?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed&

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