GoodLuckToFriends comments on TIL the first successful heart surgery was performed in 1893, by a black american surgeon that opened the first black owned and operated hospital in the USA.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 9 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

This wasn't the first open heart surgery... opening/repairing the pericardium is not open heart surgery. Even in the wikipedia article, it specifically says "heart surgery." In the cited sources from wikipedia, the listed first 'open heart surgery' isn't until 1952.

I knew something was weird when I read your title, because that and the machine for heart-lungs in 1953 are always taught as huge leaps.

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[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net [S] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Ah I did not know the difference, you are correct

https://columbiasurgery.org/news/daniel-hale-williams-and-first-successful-heart-surgery

Edit I fixed the title thank you

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[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

It's not a big deal, just one of those things that was jarring to read because I knew I had heard it differently in the past. It's more irritating to me that I knew the 'open heart surgery' thing well, and hadn't heard about this. Shows what some people are concerned with.

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