S15·E8 Partners of the Heart
- Episode
- Season 15, Episode 8
- Air Date
- February 10, 2003
- Runtime
- 55 minutes
- Story Type
- Core Character Arc
Synopsis
Chronicling the unlikely partnership between a white surgeon and a black "technician" that led to a procedure to correct blue-baby syndrome in 1944. The principals: Vivien Thomas, a black man with only a high-school diploma, and Alfred Blalock, the patrician chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Blalock pioneered the surgery to correct the congenital heart defect, but it was Thomas who devised to procedures that were used. And they did it at a time, narrator Morgan Freeman says, when the two "could not share the same lunch table in the Hopkins cafeteria."
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When did Season 15 Episode 8 of American Experience air?
Season 15, Episode 8 ('Partners of the Heart') originally aired on February 10, 2003.
How long is Season 15 Episode 8 ('Partners of the Heart')?
The runtime for this episode is approximately 55 minutes.
What happens in American Experience Season 15 Episode 8?
Chronicling the unlikely partnership between a white surgeon and a black "technician" that led to a procedure to correct blue-baby syndrome in 1944. The principals: Vivien Thomas, a black man with only a high-school diploma, and Alfred Blalock, the patrician chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Blaloc...
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