Something the Lord Made Page #4

they're suffocating due to a blockage

in the main artery to the lung.

Pulmonary stenosis.

The mortality rate is 100%.

l've watched

hundreds of cyanotic children die.

l admitted a baby tonight

who will certainly die...

simply because

no one has had the courage...

to attempt a surgical solution to this.

Maybe with good reason.

To put it mildly, you can't operate

on the heart. That's basic.

-We don't have clinical proof of that--

-My point exactly.

-lt's possible for us--

-Denton, you have to stop the heart...

to perform a complicated correction

within three minutes.

By that time, they're dead.

These children are doomed.

There must be a way

to get more blood to the lungs.

l mean, l doubt we could

repair a defect in the heart walls--

Without causing ventricular fibrillation.

But maybe there's a way to avoid interfering

with the greater circulation....

lf we focus on the pulmonary artery.

Who on this God's earth are you?

-Brought home some food from the party.

-l'm trying to get her down.

Hold on.

Okay, girl. Now go to sleep, baby.

The girls are just getting to bed?

2-ton neighbor upstairs

nearly burst through the boards.

-l'm gonna have to fix that.

-Are you gonna fix the fat man?

Get him to stop hollering his head off,

when the girls is trying to sleep?

Try a deviled egg. They're real good.

Seen better in Nashville.

l want to go home, Viv.

Clara, it's our first week.

Yeah, and you said

if we didn't like it, remember?

-Yes.

-Our family's in Nashville.

We had a nice home in a

good neighborhood. The schools were fine.

Not living in this....

l don't know how we're gonna make it

on that paycheck he's talking about...

and he got you serving drinks at his party

just to make ends meet. Come on.

Try to understand.

When l started at Vanderbilt...

-l was a janitor.

-l know.

Dr. Blalock saw what l could contribute,

and he gave me a chance.

And when they offered him

that big job in Detroit...

he didn't take it because they didn't take me.

Now l'm a lab assistant to a top surgeon...

at the number one medical school

in the country.

-lt's a good position.

-What about you going to medical school?

You don't have to remind me of that.

We have a family now.

Sweetheart, it's important work.

And it's a real opportunity,

and l love what l'm doing.

So it doesn't really matter

how l feel, then, does it?

Clara, you know it matters.

See that man?

That's Johns Hopkins himself.

Sir William Osler...

the father of modern American medicine.

William Halstead, invented the mastectomy.

Let me show you some of the others.

Excuse me.

All workers punch in at the rear entrance.

-He's with me.

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