Something the Lord Made Page #3

-l was not raised to take that type of talk.

My apologies. l'm sorry l lost my temper.

Normally it takes assistants months to learn

what you picked up in a matter of days.

lt won't happen again.

Please.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Fellows, take the music down, will you?

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you.

l mentioned to Gen. Cunningham

the other day...

how proud we were that Al had chosen us...

over all the medical schools in the country.

John, why don't you tell everyone

what you said?

Be glad to, Walter.

l just got back from a month at the front.

There are thousands of our boys

in field hospitals...

all over North Africa and ltaly...

who owe their lives to Dr. Blalock's work

in the treatment of shock.

l want everyone here to know

how grateful we are to him...

and how proud you all should be.

Hear, hear.

-Dr. Blalock, welcome.

-Thank you.

Thanks, General.

lt's great to have you here, Al...

but truth be told, it's Mary we really want.

Our new Chairman

of the Department of Surgery...

my old and dear friend, Dr. Alfred Blalock.

Thank you, Walter.

Mary and l welcome you all to our home.

As do our dear children.

-Sadie, get them to bed, now.

-No!

Thank you, Johns Hopkins,

for my prodigal return...

after 15 years in the Tennessee backwoods.

To find myself back here.

Dreams do come true.

You're the best surgeons in the country

and l'm honored to lead you.

To use a timely reference:

''We'll storm the beaches together.

Shoulder to shoulder.''

Lay siege to the mysteries of medicine.

We'll make the kind of progress

Hopkins used to be known for.

l know we will accomplish

great things together.

l'm looking

for my next watershed discovery...

not to put too modest a point on it.

lt's not enough for us to be great surgeons.

We need to be outstanding researchers.

Any ideas? Anything innovative?

What about skin grafts?

Testing what skin grips might take.

-lsn't skin merely packaging?

-No, it keeps out infection.

Excuse me, Doctor,

may l suggest something?

Please do. l'm very suggestible.

Tell us your name again.

-l run the Harriet Lane Clinic for children.

-Dr. Taussig. Yes, of course.

Dr. Longmire, Dr. Kelven, Dr. Cooley.

l've read about your research.

-On congenitally malformed hearts.

-Yes.

Boy, women and their hearts.

Vivien, would you get Dr. Taussig a drink?

-What would you like?

-Champagne would be lovely.

Let's lubricate the vein of inspiration.

Go on, Dr. Taussig, tell us more.

lt's something that up to now

has been written off as untreatable.

But l don't believe it has to be.

l'm speaking of Tetralogy of Fallot.

Blue babies.

Yes, these children,

their hearts aren't failing...

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