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Blue Babies Research Paper

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Have you heard of “Blue Babies”, Some babies are born with a bad heart. They start turning blue. Eileen Saxon was a one year old born with a bad heart condition her body was starved with oxygen. It wasn’t unique in 1940’s it was common the blue babies were to live just a few years. Back then the doctors couldn’t do nothing it was going to change. Viven Thomas was 11 years old he worked as a carpenter after school he went to work. He saved money for his life savings. In the 1940’s the great depression happened and he lost all of his money and his job.Then he was desperate for a job he went over to Vinvien school. He ran into a man named Dr. Alfred Blalock. He asked if he could join him and so he did. He was Blalock’s assistant they

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