Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a pioneering African American surgeon, became the first Black physician elected as a charter member of the American College of Surgeons on this day. He is also famously known for performing one of the first successful open-heart surgeries in 1893—decades before such procedures became standard.
Dr. Williams founded Provident Hospital in Chicago in 1891, the first interracial hospital and nursing school in the United States, providing critical care and training for African Americans at a time when segregation barred them from most medical institutions.
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