Triumph over obstacles: Helen Taussig

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Suppose a person played a prominent role in inventing a pediatric specialty. Suppose this person developed a treatment for a disease thought by all predecessors and contemporaries to be incurable. Suppose this person also helped to prevent the use of a drug that would have caused many thousands of birth defects. Suppose this person was also the first pediatrician to become president of the American Heart Association and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Suppose this person was also a woman, who faced prejudice against her gender throughout her career. And suppose she trained and worked all her life with a severe disability. …