Something the Lord Made

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The other day ago I saw this movie. Yes, it has some causing words in it, yet it is basically true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_the_Lord_Made   

 

 There is one name that caught my attention in the movie was  Denton Cooley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_Cooley According to its reference #11, he operated on 542 Jehovah's Witnesses without blood transfusions. 

 

Although the movie was based on Doctors Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, In this article on paragraph 5, Cooley mentions that Thomas had inspired him for medical works. https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/mstp/person/vivien-t-thomas/

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That was a GREAT movie.  Alan Rickman was a British Shakespearean actor (he has since died), and they made him speak with a Southern accent (!!) in order to play Alfred Blalock, one of the first surgeons to perform heart surgery on infants, and Mos Def (a rap singer, now called Yaslin Bey) played a black mechanic with a talent for adjusting tools to fill the doctor's need for specialized instruments.

 

The characters that they played obviously took some time to learn to respect one another's talents, but after some expected profanity, they eventually did, and the surgeon even got the mechanic some specialized training and upgraded his position, and they worked together for many years to save a great many infants.

 

I mentioned it to some teachers that I worked with, and they put a poster on the break room wall.  And, as one might guess, it is a true story, and the hospital where they worked have honorary portraits of both of them on the walls.

 

Edited September 24, 2023 by rbrown1205
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https://youtu.be/eIgZVmMAkiQ?si=JFr48EK-6_gvBs6x

Movie based on true story 'Something the Lord Made'