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Dr. Alfred Blalock

In Baltimore, 1950. A 5-year-old boy named Kenneth “Kenny” H. was dying. He had been born with a hole in his heart — a condition called tetralogy of Fallot. In 1950, it was a death sentence. No child had ever survived the surgery. Most doctors would not even attempt it. A surgeon named Dr. Alfred […]