DID YOU KNOW Chicago USA's first open heart surgery was performed in Chicago Already making history as one of the first black physicians in the city, Northwestern University graduate Daniel Hale Williams performed the nation’s first-ever open-heart surgery. As a result of the groundbreaking 1983 surgery, the patient was able to recover from a stab wound near the heart in less than two months. |
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