Helen Tausig Biography

My journey in selecting my topic was based on my career choice. I hope to become a nurse in pediatrics and maybe a doctor in the future. Dr. Helen Taussig is an inspiration she figured out how to help baby’s with a congenital heart defect that cause this syndrome. She is everything that a doctor hopes to become and more she did some amazing things in her lifetime as a cardiologist. I hope to become someone half as great as her she made some really inspiring changes in medicine. So I chose to do Helen Taussig because she everything that inspires me to become a better nurse and doctor.
My work expresses Helen Taussig’s heroism is a heart one with the congenital heart defect and the other a normal fully functioning heart. The heart with the defect shows what changes were made to help with the lack of oxygen getting into the blood a condition called cyanosis giving the infants skin a bluish color. “The procedure involved diverting a branch of the aorta that normally went to the infant's arm to the lungs. The shunt would act as a functional blood vessel that could circumvent the defective vessels and allow blood to reach the lungs and oxygenate.” This procedure helped save many infants around the world, Taussig and …show more content…
The heart with the defect shows what was changed in the normal heart. I don’t really have a unique process to how I do my art it just happens. It usually takes me awhile to get an idea on what to do, originally I wanted to make a 3-d heart of what the difference was but that was not going to work out very well so I decided to go with a drawing. I feel like anything I wanted to do wasn’t going to do it justice and I know it hasn’t as much as I wanted it to. If I had a due over I would probably do the 3-d version of the hearts for this