A personality of great stature and repute, Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon who went on to defy all norms and customs of medical science. Blalock always believed that he was a failure from a very young age, but he never really comprehended and gauged his own aptitude and perseverance that would help in creating remarkable advances in the domain of surgery and science. Lifesaving discoveries and groundbreaking research led him to develop remedies and treatments for conditions that would have otherwise, never been exposed. From discovering and developing the ‘Blue-Baby’ surgical procedures to various treatments of the traumatic shock, Blalock was befitted as one of the biggest names in medical institutions all over the world. Along with his surgical, technician friend, Vivien Thomas, Blalock evolved new, tetralogy surgical procedures and heart bypass techniques for infants that would eradicate the ‘Blue-Baby’ syndrome all together. With successful surgeries and accomplishments of saving countless lives on the battlefields, Alfred Blalock was the last word in the development of a new epoch of cardiac surgery.