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...striped pants showing below their white coats, to operate on a patient they had probably never seen. Skill and ingenuity are as important as ever, and some surgeons are famed for developing brilliant procedures-e.g., Boston's Robert (heart valve) Gross, Johns Hopkins' Alfred (blue baby) Blalock...
...employers, however, took the attitude that the dissidents had been privileged to serve and had betrayed a trust. Pierce Brothers declared that the strikers were about to ruin one of the greatest privileges of life in Los Angeles-a $560 funeral (at New York rates) for only $320. Ugene Blalock, attorney for Forest Lawn, put it more ringingly. Cried he, after calling the cemetery's employees to a meeting in the new Hall of the Crucifixion (TIME, April...
Shortly before Election Day, surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore performed their thousandth "blue baby" operation. The technique, which has saved many more thousands of lives elsewhere, was developed at Johns Hopkins by two famed doctors, Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig, in a long course of experimenting on dogs. The dogs got the same care, the same anesthesia, as would a human patient. Not all the dogs died-if they had, the experiment would have been a failure. For example, Anna, now a laboratory pet, is as well today as 3^-year-old Gene Haskins...
...medicine. Blue babies rarely live beyond twelve unless an operation corrects a congenital defect: a too-small opening in the pulmonary artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. One day last week Don decided to risk the operation devised by Johns Hopkins' Surgeon Alfred Blalock (TIME...
Experience has taught Drs. Blalock and Taussig that the best age for the operation is between three and twelve. Under three, arteries are so small they are hard to work with; after twelve, poor circulation may have done permanent brain and lung damage. Before each operation, the surgeons tell the parents that the risks are great. Fathers, they have found, are the timid ones. Mothers usually say to go ahead...