Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas Social Themes - Death “If You Were a Kid”

“If You Were a Kid”

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Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas Social Themes - Death “If You Were a Kid”NAACP Image Awards Winner National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) The life story of Vivien Thomas, an African American surgical technician who developed the first procedure used to perform open heart surgery on children. Vivien Thomas's greatest dream was to attend college to study medicine. But after the stock market crashed in 1929, Vivien lost all his savings. Then he heard about a job opening at the Vanderbilt University