How Long to Read The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer

How Long Does it Take to Read The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer?

It takes the average reader and 50 minutes to read The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer by Edwin Brit Wyckoff

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Vivien Theodore Thomas was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons. Vivien Thomas was the first African American without a doctorate to perform open heart surgery on a white patient in the United States.

How long is The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer?

The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer by Edwin Brit Wyckoff is 50 pages long, and a total of 12,500 words.

This makes it 17% the length of the average book. It also has 15% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 8 minutes to read The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer aloud.

What Reading Level is The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer?

The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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