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perform bypass surgery, an open-heart surgical procedure, which was the ninth of its kind in the world at the time. This was when she began dedicating her career towards children's heart surgery alongside developing the antibiotic
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diseases with the majority of her medical practice done at the Harlem
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276:(oil on canvas) in Harlem Hospital, a mural commissioned in 1936 by the WPA. Logan was a medical intern at the hospital then and served as a model for the mural; she appears as a nurse holding a baby.
184:. She was the youngest of eight children and sister to Arthur R. Logan. Her mother was college-educated and involved in the suffrage and health care movements. Her father was treasurer and trustee of
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to perform a successful open-heart surgery. Following this accomplishment, Logan focused her work on children's heart surgery and was involved in the development of the antibiotic
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