Why Is Daniel Hale Williams Successful

Daniel Hale Williams was an African American Surgeon who performed the first successful pericardium surgery in 1893. The surgery was a repair wound to the heart. He also is known for founding one of the first black operating hospitals with black doctors and interracial staff. Along with many other successful movements throughout time, Williams has paved the way for many African-American doctors to succeed.

Daniel Hale Williams was born on January 18, 1965. Shortly after his father had passed, his mother sent him to live with other relatives in Baltimore. Between the years of 1866 and 1878 he was a shoemaker’s apprentice. He later on become a barber. Dissatisfied with the work he was doing, he decided to further his education. In the year of

After opening his own practice, he began to teach anatomy at the Chicago Medical School. Also, within his own office Williams practiced the sterilization process on germ transmission and prevention that was brought about by Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur.

After opening his own practice, there was an issue where blacks were not allowed to work in hospitals. Feeling as though he had to find a solution to the problem that they were facing, Williams decided that he would fund a hospital that allowed blacks to work and practice medicine. After funding this hospital, he also went on to staff his own practice which gave African Americans the opportunity to practice in medicine, while also working with people of different race.

In 1891, he cofounded Provident hospital on the Southside of Chicago, in a three story building. The hospital was also known to be the first black controlled hospital, and it was also the first interracial hospital of its kind. Even though the hospital was interracial, it was mostly developed for the employment of blacks. Provident was a very successful hospital. It was due to its high success rate with patient recovery. The success rate was 87

He also went on to co-found the National American Association for African American doctors in 1895. The reason behind him doing so was that he because blacks were being denied their opportunity to be accepted into an all-white association. Along with the Provident Hospital Williams went on to fund another school for African American students. He was a teacher for clinical surgery at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. He was also an attending surgeon at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Later on in 1913 he became the first African American man to become a charter member and doctor within the American College of