The Breakfast Club - IDKMYDE: The Open-Heart Miracle They Don’t Teach

Episode Date: February 7, 2026

Decades before medicine believed it possible, a Black surgeon performed one of theworld's first successful open-heart surgeries—and history still barely tells his story.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. America is in crisis. At a Morehouse college, the students make their move. These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the Board of Trustees, including Martin Luther King's Senior.

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I'm Hope Woodard, host of the Boy Sober podcast, and each week we're looking at love from every angle. Listen to Boy Sober. That's B-O-Y-S-O-B-E-R. On the I-Hart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Open Heart Miracle, they do. Don't teach. I didn't know. Welcome back, No. At All's, to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect Podcast

Network, especially in February, entitled, I Didn't Know. Maybe you didn't either. I'm your host, BDOT. I was a felon at 16 years old, had no direction. But my HBCU saved my life. Thank you, Winston-Salem State University. I love you with all my heart. And to kick off this episode, I'll give you three of the most useless facts you'll never need not a day in life about hearts.

Your first useless fact, open heart surgery was considered impossible well until the 20th century. And the 20th century is the 1900s. Your second useless fact, doctors believed that stopping the human heart meant guaranteed death. And your third useless fact, the breakthrough that changed. Everything came from a black surgeon whose name rarely gets taught in medical schools. Would you like to meet them? Open heart surgery. Today it sounds routine.

Still serious, but possible. Millions of people are alive today because surgeons can safely operate on a heart. Your uncle with the bypass alive. Your moma with the valve replacement. She will hear for Christmas. That baby that were born with a heart defect who now running. track. Even when my mama had congestive heart failure and they were putting all them tubes and stuff in there and making sure the blood pumped to it effectively. But for a long time,

doctor said it couldn't be done. The heart was off limits. Too risky. Too sacred. Too final. Touched the heart and you've touched death. That was the belief. Until Dr. Daniel Hale-Williams changed everything. 1893, Dr. Williams, one of the first black surgeons in America. He performed one of world's first successful open heart surgeries. Did you hear that date? 1893. Before antibiotics, before blood banks, before heart lung machines, before modern anesthesia, before most hospitals would even let a black doctor walk through the front door.

A man named James Cornish got stabbed in the chest. The knife went deep. There's a sack around your heart. It's called the paracardium. That was torn. They just knew bro were going to die. Everybody in that room. room new bro about to check out.

Everybody except Daniel Hill Williams. Man, Daniel opened that man's chest. He looked at what no surgeon was supposed to look at. And he saw the damage. He sold up the actual lining of that man's heart. And then closed it. And then James Cornish woke up. Not for a few minutes.

Not for a few hours. That man lived for decades after that surgery. That moment shattered medical belief. Open heart surgery went from impossible to unavoid. So why are you today years old just hearing Dr. Williams' name? Why we don't hear his name like we hear other medical pioneers? But here's the uncomfortable truth. Medical textbooks often frame heart surgery as a gradual evolution, as if the breakthrough just

happened. Who did it? Nobody knows it just evolved. They skipped the part where a black surgeon took a risk when the rules said, don't do that. That's like saying the light bulb gradually evolved without mentioning Edison, except they always mentioned Edison. And here's what make it even more remarkable. Dr. Williams did this while, one, hospitals were segregated. Two, black doctors were barred for medical societies. Three, medical

schools barely admitted us. And four, most white hospitals wouldn't even let black patients through the door. So what did he do? Brub built his own hospital, Provident Hospital in Chicago in 1891. The first interracial hospital in America. He trained his own staff, He created his own standards. He built his own institution. Does that sound familiar? It should. Because that's the Carter G. Woodson playbook, baby.

Before Woodson even wrote it. If they won't let you in, you build your own damn door. Carter G. Woodson understood this a century ago. If we don't preserve our breakthroughs, somebody else will rewrite them. Every heart surgery performed today traces back to a man who wasn't even supposed to be in the room. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone.

America is in crisis. And at Morehouse College, the students make their move. These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, locked up the members of the Board of Trustees, including Martin Luther King Sr. It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never forget. I'm Hans Charles.

I'm in a McLauram. Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you?

I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games. A new podcast exploring NLP. aka neurolinguistic programming. Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast. On a recent episode, I sat down with Nick Jonas, singer, songwriter, actor, and global superstar. I went blank. I hit a bad note, and then I couldn't kind of recover. And I had built up this idea that music. and being musician was my whole identity. I had to sort of relearn who I was if you took this thing away. Who am I?

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What is something you've had to unlearn about love? That it's earned. That I was unworthy of love. That it needs to be forever for it to count. February is the month of love. Whether you're in a relationship, casually dating, or proudly single,

it's a great time to reflect on yourself and what you want. I'm Hope Woodard, host of the Boy Sober podcast, and each week we're looking at love from every angle. Listen to Boy Sober. That's B-O-Y-S-O-B-E-R. On the I-Hart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an I-Hart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.