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    The movie "Something the Lord Made" summarizes the 34-year partnership between Dr. Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. It details their pioneering work developing the first successful surgery to treat "Blue Baby Syndrome" at Vanderbilt University and Johns Hopkins hospitals between 1930-1964. Though faced with racism, Thomas' surgical skills were invaluable as Blalock's assistant. Their collaboration led to major advancements in heart surgery and recognition of Thomas' contributions, though not without struggles along the way.

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    The movie "Something the Lord Made" summarizes the 34-year partnership between Dr. Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. It details their pioneering work developing the first successful surgery to treat "Blue Baby Syndrome" at Vanderbilt University and Johns Hopkins hospitals between 1930-1964. Though faced with racism, Thomas' surgical skills were invaluable as Blalock's assistant. Their collaboration led to major advancements in heart surgery and recognition of Thomas' contributions, though not without struggles along the way.

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    The movie "Something the Lord Made" summarizes the 34-year partnership between Dr. Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. It details their pioneering work developing the first successful surgery to treat "Blue Baby Syndrome" at Vanderbilt University and Johns Hopkins hospitals between 1930-1964. Though faced with racism, Thomas' surgical skills were invaluable as Blalock's assistant. Their collaboration led to major advancements in heart surgery and recognition of Thomas' contributions, though not without struggles along the way.

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    FCE 3302

    SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

    “SOMETHING THE LORD MADE”

    1) AMIRRUL NEEZAR BIN AMINUL RAZIN (207002)


    2) MUHAMMAD MIKHAIL BIN MOHD RAZID (208151)
    i) Movie Summary
    Something the Lord Made tells the story of the 34-year partnership that begins in Depression
    Era Nashville in 1930 when Blalock (Alan Rickman) hires Thomas (Mos Def) as an assistant at his
    Vanderbilt University lab, expecting him to perform janitorial work. But Thomas' remarkable
    manual dexterity and intellectual acumen confound Blalock's expectations, and Thomas rapidly
    becomes indispensable as a research partner to Blalock in his forays into heart surgery.
    The film traces the two men's work when they move in 1943 from Vanderbilt to Johns Hopkins,
    an institution where the only black employees are janitors and where Thomas must enter by
    the back door. Together, they attack the congenital heart defect of Tetralogy of Fallot, also
    known as Blue Baby Syndrome, and in so doing they open the field of heart surgery.
    Helen Taussig (Mary Stuart Masterson), the pediatrician/cardiologist at Johns Hopkins,
    challenges Blalock to come up with a surgical solution for her Blue Babies. She needs a new
    ductus for them to oxygenate their blood.
    The duo is seen experimenting on stray dogs they got from the local dog pound, deliberately
    giving the dogs the heart defect and trying to solve it. The outcome looks good and they are
    excited to operate on a baby with the defect, but in a dream, Thomas sees the baby grown up
    and crying because she's dying. Thomas asks why she's dying in the dream and she says it's
    because she has a baby heart. Blalock interprets it as the fact that their sewing technique didn't
    work because the sutures didn't grow with the heart, and worked on a new version that would
    work.
    The film dramatizes Blalock's and Thomas' fight to save the dying Blue Babies. Blalock praises
    Thomas' surgical skill as being "like something the Lord made", and insists that Thomas coach
    him through the first Blue Baby surgery over the protests of Hopkins administrators. Yet outside
    the lab, they are separated by the prevailing racism of the time. Blalock makes a mistake once
    by accidentally cutting an artery at the wrong place, but eventually, along with Thomas,
    succeeds. Thomas attends Blalock's parties as a bartender, moonlighting for extra income, and
    when Blalock is honored for the Blue Baby work at the segregated Belvedere Hotel, Thomas is
    not among the invited guests. Instead, he watches from behind a potted palm at the rear of the
    ballroom. From there, he listens to Blalock give credit to the other doctors who assisted in the
    work but make no mention of Thomas or his contributions. The next day, Thomas reveals that
    he saw the ceremony, and quits from his lab. However his heart is so with the work he left
    behind that he finds himself unhappy in other endeavors and decides to overlook Blalock's lack
    of acknowledgement and return to the lab.
    In 1964, one day before Blalock dies, he sees Thomas, now a professional surgeon and trainer in
    the open heart surgery wing. After Blalock's death, Thomas continued his work at Johns
    Hopkins training surgeons. At the end of the film, in a formal ceremony in 1976, Hopkins
    recognized Thomas' work and awarded him an honorary doctorate. A portrait of Thomas was
    placed on the walls of Johns Hopkins next to Blalock's portrait, which had been hung there
    years earlier. and a brief montage shows 'DR. ALFRED BLALOCK 1899-1964' over Blalock's
    portrait, and 'DR. VIVIEN THOMAS: 1910-1985' over Thomas's.
    ii) Direct Message
    iii) Hidden Message
    iv) Is this movie can be the teaching
    material?

    1. Yes, why?

    2. No, why?

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