BY WALTER OPINDE Daniel Hale Williams was an African-American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the second documented successful pericardium surgery (open heart surgery) to repair a patient’s wound in the United States. He is also known to be the founder of Provident Hospital; the first non-segregated hospital in the U.S., located in Chicago, Illinois. Daniel Hale Williams entered the historical […]
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