
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams #1340
Caption from poster__ Daniel Hale Williams A lifesaver at Heart. On a hot summer night in Chicago, in 1893, a deliveryman was rushed to the emergency room of Provident Hospital. He had been stabbed in the heart in a barroom brawl. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, an African-American, was on duty. With the patient's life ebbing, Williams decided to surgically repair the torn heart tissue. In doing so, he made history as the first doctor to successfully perform open heart surgery. The patient went on to live another 20 years. Dr. Williams became one of the 100 charter members of the American College of Surgeons in 1913. Today in the U.S., there are 761,000 physicians, 6 percent of them African-American. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was an African American physician who made history by performing the first successful open heart surgery operation. Daniel Hale Williams was born in 1856 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, the fifth of eight children. His father was a ba