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Vivien Thomas: A Very Smart Man

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Vivien Thomas was first known as a janitor. The blacks such as him were not allowed to do very much. So there were not very many jobs he could do. He became skilled in things to do with the heart. Also at the time there was no cure for blue babies so he started studying that. He studied ways to help the blue babies and studied a cure for blue babies. One day Blalock, the guy Vivien studied the blue babies heart with, got asked to go to Hopkins hospital. Blalock accepted under one condition. Blalock said he would take the job if Vivien could come too. Vivien was a very smart man. The guy said he could but when Blalock left then Vivien had to too. So Vivien and Blalock went to the Hopkins hospital. They started studying ways to fix blue babies

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