(BPRW) The Legacy of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, the First Black Heart Surgeon

Published on February 18, 2022

(Black PR Wire) In July 1893, James Cornish was admitted to Chicago’s Provident Hospital with a knife wound to his chest, stemming from a barroom brawl. He needed surgery, but medical professionals at the time believed operating on the heart was too

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