上帝的傑作 - Something the Lord made


一黑一白, 一窮一富..

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藉由這部HBO自製電影, 認識了一位Vivien Thomas.

一個是富有的白人外科主任,一個是出身貧困的黑人醫技人員,
兩人的合作創造了醫學上的重大突破,獲得眾人的讚賞;
但同時也面對種族歧視和機會不均的痛苦教訓。

1940年代巴爾第摩,
布拉洛克醫師(艾倫瑞克曼)和實驗室醫技人員(莫斯戴夫)組成了一個出色的小組,
為「藍嬰症」的嬰兒進行開心手術。

即使兩人的合作為醫學界寫下創新的一頁,挽救了數千人的性命,
社會壓力還是迫使兩人必須要拆夥,也拆散兩人的友誼。


Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures 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, Maryland.

Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons.

Vivien Thomas was the first African American
without a doctorate degree to perform open heart surgery on a white patient in the United States.



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