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Revision as of 01:02, 6 March 2016 by Jarry1250 (talk | contribs) (use NYPL source)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Albert A. Berg (1872 in New York – 1950) was an American surgeon of Hungarian heritage. He had three sisters and four brothers.
Berg attended City College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Berg was appointed to the staff of Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan in 1894 and was chief of the gastrointestinal service there between 1915 and 1934. At the behest of his colleague Richard Lewisohn Berg performed the first subtotal gastric resection for peptic ulcer in the United States. Berg was "a strong advocate of the procedure and reported more than 500 cases, in which a recurrence rate of slightly over 1% was compared to a recurrence rate of 34% after gastroenterostomy alone". Berg "gain nationwide renown as an innovator in the field of abdominal surgery".
Berg, who was "an indefatigable and extremely facile surgeon", along with his brother Henry (1858 – 1938), donated a collection of over 35,000 printed works on American and English literature to the New York Public Library. The collection was established on October 11, 1940, and endowed in Henry's memory.
References
- ^ "About the Berg Collection". The New York Public Library. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ^ Schwartz, Seymour (January 2011). "Contributions of Jewish surgeons in the United States". Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal. 2 (1). doi:10.5041/rmmj.10020. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
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