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Partners of the Heart. Prod, by Andrea Kaiin. Spark Media, 2003. 56 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 800-344-3337; <[email protected]>; <http:// shop.pbs.org/education/> [Sept. 15,2004])
Partners of the Heart tells the moving story of the personal triumph of Vivien Thomas, an African American medical technician who collaborated with Dr. Alfred Blalock on a medical miracle at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Maryland. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this film documents the partnership between two medical men, one black and one white. Thomas, who longed to be a doctor, lost his savings for college at the start of the Great Depression and only entered the world of medicine when Dr. Alfred Blalock, an ambitious, talented white surgeon at Vanderbilt Medical School, hired him to work...