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Thank you.
Morning.
Yes, Doctor.
Medical research.
- So?
- So what?
I'm so glad.
Everyone's gonna see how smart you are.
I don't know
how smart you have to be to shovel.
Doctor...
- Vivien.
- Good morning, sir.
Call me Doctor.
So your daddy's a carpenter, too?
Good.
- Thank you.
- Good night.
Yes.
He raised me
with hardly an elementary school education.
So don't tell me
things don't get better over time.
To anesthetize Brutus,
first we have to calculate the weight.
He weighs . kilograms.
What's this?
What's this?
Open up.
- Closed?
- Yup.
Open up.
Excuse me.
Gone?
The manometer.
Good.
I'll mark out the line. And you cut along it.
Like this?
Not bad.
Use my rules.
Still falling.
It's rising.
Vivien. Jesus.
Please.
Hear, hear.
Thanks, General.
It's great to have you here, Al...
I'm looking
for my next watershed discovery...
Blue babies.
Pulmonary stenosis.
I've watched
hundreds of cyanotic children die.
simply because
no one has had the courage...
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Hold on.
- Yes.
- Our family's in Nashville.
Try to understand.
When I started at Vanderbilt...
- I was a janitor.
- I know.
Excuse me.
All workers punch in at the rear entrance.
Thank you.
Excuse me?
Good morning.
Director of Laboratories.
I'd like some coffee and a doughnut.
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Doctor.
Here he is now.
Thank you.
I did necroscopies
on some of my patients' hearts.
a narrowing indentation
of the left side of the aortic arch.
Thank you.
I swore then...
Shut up.
$ ?
Indeed, it would.
But I hope you'll forgive my skepticism.
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And I know...
I wouldn't be able to do
what I'm doing without you.
Shit.
Damn.
- What's that?
- Our new respirator.
It is pretty.
Mary!
- That's wonderful.
- Not really.
a couple of weeks
since I made it home before : .
- Vivien.
- Dr. Longmire.
I pieced it together
from some things lying around.
- No, years.
- years?
Time.
- Thank you.
- But does he compensate you extra for that?
He said he regretted
acting so grateful for being free...
I know, I remember.
Job classification.
Maintenance worker.
"Vivien Thomas."
Thank you.
- How's it going?
- The vessel's tolerating ligation.
Any progress?
I was kidding
about taking it out of your paycheck.
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If my work is so important,
then why am I class three?
I see.
Off, Alfred.
Hello, Clara.
Dr. Blalock.
Thank you.
Is Vivien at home?
I don't recall
you ever stopping by our house.
Professor.
Excuse me.
Did we?
Thank you.
A shunt.
Which is exactly
what Dr. Taussig said these babies need.
Comforting thought.
The subclavian...
Tie it off.
Swing it down.
- Retractor.
- No, suture.
All right.
Sutures.
Do you mind
if I show you something, Doctor?
Thank you.
I acknowledge
that these are uncharted waters.
How?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
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No surgery is...
Good idea.
A single minute
of poor blood flow to the brain...
Prof. Blalock.
not an operation?
My instincts tell me
nature made a mistake and I can fix it.
I have no doubt.
But if you intervene with God's will...
I am not.
I had a dream
about this white woman last night.
No.
- He pulled it loose.
- I was wrong. Purse-stringing doesn't work.
% oxygenation.
She's deteriorating so rapidly.
- Yes.
- No kinking?
None.
You bet.
You'll be ready.
I think he is.
He's dead.
Or connected.
Or connected.
Dr. Swedlin?
Dr. Philmore?
Dr. Cooley.
Thank you.
Postponing means
signing that baby's death warrant.
I tried that.
Thanks.
Thanks, Vivien.
I don't think
she can survive much lower than that.
Doctor.
Coming in now.
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Dr. Longmire.
- Why not?
- Something about hospital policy.
This is Blalock.
- Thank you.
- Good luck.
Jesus.
- Scrub up?
- You're coming in with me.
falling.
And now...
- Careful.
- Clamp it.
- I can't reach it, Doctor.
Sorry, Doctor.
Suture.
- Blood pressure is .
- Yes, go on.
- What clamp?
- The one just there.
Blood pressure is .
No, .
Bleeding controlled.
I can't tell
if blood is flowing through the shunt.
My God.
Heart surgery.
And we did it right here in Johns Hopkins.
- Some operation.
- Amazing.
He was lucky
to have that nigger in there with him.
Thank you.
Yes.
I think I did.
as soon as possible.
- Thank you.
- Dr. Thomas.
- Helen.
- Very good.
Thank you,
now focus your attention here, please.
I'll be back.
I believe...
together.
Belvedere Hotel.
Me?
- And in my hands.
- Exactly, in your hands.
The world.
Yes, I did.
You're saying
that I have to start at the beginning?
- Hello.
- Say hi to Grandma.
My goodness.
I don't understand
why you quit teaching in the first place.
Exactly.
- No...
- I don't think it's a waste of time.
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There's no point
in waiting for the world to thank you.
- Amen to that.
- I'm not waiting, Pop.
I'll be in in a minute.
You okay?
I'm fine.
I miss you.
I don't know
what I'm supposed to do, Clara.
Yes?
- Careful.
- Okay.
- That's good.
- Thank you.
It started...
Yes.
I regret...
Yes, we did.
No.
This individual
helped change the way we understand...
"in consideration
of an innovative scientist...
years ago...
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I had no idea...