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At the height of segregation in the United States, an unlikely
alliance between a black medical genius and a white surgeon led to
some of the 20th century's pioneering medical breakthroughs.
The improbable alliance of black medical genius Vivien Thomas
and white surgeon Alfred Blalock began in Depression-era Nashville.
Their work together at Vanderbilt University and later at Johns
Hopkins led to one of the century's signal medical breakthroughs:
the pioneering of daring heart operations that saved thousands of
children afflicted with a congenital heart defect called "blue baby
syndrome." Blalock and Thomas went on to train two generations of
America's most prominent cardiac surgeons. Morgan Freeman narrates
this compelling and heroic tale of two men whose social and
cultural differences could not stand in the way of their quest to
alleviate human suffering.