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This wasn't the first open heart surgery... opening/repairing the pericardium is not open heart surgery. Even in the wikipedia article, it specifically says "heart surgery." In the cited sources from wikipedia, the listed first 'open heart surgery' isn't until 1952.
I knew something was weird when I read your title, because that and the machine for heart-lungs in 1953 are always taught as huge leaps.
Ah I did not know the difference, you are correct
https://columbiasurgery.org/news/daniel-hale-williams-and-first-successful-heart-surgery
Edit I fixed the title thank you
Fascinating, truly.
Why would you make the main link to less accessible YouTube instead of more-accessible Wikipedia?
I made a video about how I learned about the guy. I thought the card record was neat.
Please prioritize links to accessible content
It's their video, they're sharing their work. If you understand this and still think their link doesn't belong here? Get lost.
I'm not saying it doesn't belong. I'm saying Lemmy has a link field and that should be the accessible content.
If you want to add something supplementary like a video, put it in the body. Not the link field.
The topic of this thread is his video. This thread is about that video. Get lost.
I'll follow the rules the best I can.
I don't mean this in a negative way but I'm so sick of the narrative that skin color has anything to do with people's capabilities.
Brown skinned and for present day things I'd say race shouldn't matter... But for fucking 1893? Just 30 years after the civil war? Can you imagine the challenges they faced in society during that time? It was probably double or triple as hard to get where they were vs if a white man had followed the same path.
what's interesting in this case is the year, 1893, people were really racist back then
It has seemed for years that, with a large population of people with a superiority complex over others, Americans keep feeling the need to convince everyone that non-white people are, and have always been, just as useful and talented as white people.
Another take is "Breaking! People achieve things.. And some of those people have skin tones darker than pure ivory. Amaze!"
It doesn't. This surgeon was motivated enough to help people that he opened his own practice to do it, and that motivation helped people.
The thing is that people think (let's face it, it's not thought) that POC are somehow less intelligent.
People being a very specific group here since POC certainly don't think that.
I think everyone is, especially the people who are thought of as less capable by the colour their skin
ditto but for me it's the constant men vs women sex rage bait
This isn't that.
The card I found was made during an era where civil rights had a massive leap forward. These kind of stories were not about people being better, they were about people deserving an opportunity to participate.
I didn't say your post was that