How Did Vivien Thomas Grow During The Great Depression

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In the 1940’s a man named Vivien Thomas made a procedure to save “blue babies” it was a problem because thousands of babies died from it. People still have it today. Dr. Alfred Blalock done the first procedure on Eileen Saxson ,but Thomas was next to him the whole time ,he was given no credit though. Helen Tausigg told Blalock and Thomas to fix “blue babies”. She also told them why ‘blue babies” existed. Thomas had many obstacles in his life one was the great depression. Before the great depression Thomas was saving money for college, but lost it all according to “The Man who Saved a Thousand Babies” ,” …Thomas’s plans were shattered by the Great Depression. That caused him to get a job at Vanderbilt University to go to college. Were he