Background
What type of surgery was performed?
What is open heart surgery?
What was his father's job?
What is barber?
What was the name of the man who received the surgery?
Who is James Cornish?
Who was the first surgeon to be admitted into the American College of surgeons?
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Who was the first Black president of the United States?
Who is Barack Obama?
Who was the doctor that performed the surgery?
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
The hospital he founded was primarily meant to train what profession?
What are nurses?
Where was the man stabbed?
What is in the chest?
What was the most prestigious award available to African Americans at the time?
What is the Chief Surgeon?
Name 3 civil rights activists
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What year was Daniel Hale Williams born?
What is 1856?
What year did Dr. Daniel Hale Williams become a surgeon?
What is 1883?
How many doctors were inside the operation room?
What is 7?
What association did Dr. Daniel Hale Williams help organize in 1895?
What is the National Medical Association?
Who was the first Black surgeon?
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
What college did he study medicine at, at the age of 20?
What is Chicago Medical College?
These were his 4 jobs in chronological order:
Barber, Shoemaker, Physician, Surgeon
What did Dr. Daniel Hale Williams stitch up to stop bleeding from the chest?
What is a damaged artery?
What year did Dr. Daniel Hale Williams become chief surgeon?
What is 1894?
When was the civil rights movement?
What is 1954-1968?
What is the name of the hospital he founded?
What is Provident Hospital?
What was his job at age 20?
What is an apprentice to a former surgeon?
What are three reasons this surgery was such high risk and complicated?
What is high pressure, crowded room, no proper tools, makeshift anesthesia, no modern technology?
What was the result from the success of the surgery?
What is Black surgeons were seen as equal?
When was slavery abolished?
What is December 6, 1865?