Blue Baby Turn Pink
BLUE BABY TURN PINK The sixties, the age of youth and post war baby boomers. ... Taussig, the most honored “lady” doctor in the world, and “being female” in a male oriented profession, that got her biggest thrill putting on a cap, mask and gown to peer over the shoulder of a surgeon and “see a blue baby turn pink. ... Taussig Children’s Pediatric Cardiac Center” at Johns Hopkins Hospital stands in memory of the woman who solved the mystery of the blue babies. ... Alfred Blalock, a world-renowned surgeon, developed the famed “blue-baby” operation, a procedure that repairs the malformed hearts of infants. ... Taussig, and sickly blue babies were saved. ... Her book was a landmark in pediatric cardiology, which permanently laid to rest the mystery of the blue babies. ... Blue babies, condemned to invalidism and early death, today are given new hope for a normal life from not only just a doctor, but a woman doctor, who pioneered and was triumphant over incredible odds. ... (African 3) Warm blue Hayes 4 eyes and a bright smile, strong, slender and a gentle voice full of enthusiasm, through her modesty you could see that she was a true fighter and unrelenting determination allowed her to touch the lives of millions of children, her “little crossword puzzles” (Blalock 5), she affectionately would call them.