Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012 Feb;143(2):260-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.10.071.
Great men are not a common occurrence. Indeed, they are a rare find. Though respected and lauded in their time, it is only in retrospect that their true contributions can be adequately measured as a surgeon, an educator and a scientist. Such is the case of Dr. Alfred Blalock. Many have considered him the father of modern cardiac surgery. All consider his “blue baby” operation to be one of the landmarks of cardiac surgery and, as the chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins, he trained many who would become the leaders of our discipline. His continual reach for excellence helped him to not only affect, but revolutionize the paradigm of surgical research, an understanding of the physiology of shock and the surgical management of pulmonic stenosis/atresia. Dr. Blalock was the 30 president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and his presidential address was given in 1951.
伟人并非常见，实乃凤毛麟角。他们生前备受尊敬与赞扬，只有在事后，他们的真正贡献才能被充分衡量。作为一名外科医生、教育家和科学家，阿尔弗雷德·布莱洛克博士就是这样的人。许多人认为他是现代心脏外科学之父。所有人都认为他的“蓝婴”手术是心脏外科学的里程碑之一，作为约翰霍普金斯医院的外科主任，他培养了许多后来成为我们学科领域的领导者。他不断追求卓越，不仅影响了外科研究的范式，还彻底改变了这一范式，他对休克生理学和肺动脉瓣狭窄/闭锁的外科处理的理解就是如此。布莱洛克博士是美国胸外科学会的第 30 任主席，他在 1951 年发表了主席演讲。
