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This is a recording of the oral history of Bella Trachtenberg conducted by Albert S. Lyons on October 31st, 1985. Some of the significant topics represented in this oral history include: working as a stenographer; stories from life in France while working in the laboratory at Base Hospital No. 3 AEF during World War I; her experiences with and opinion of the men of the Board of Trustees and Medical Board; recalling controversies and tensions between surgeons, as well as the first and second woman externs, Isabel Beck (finished training in 1924) and Gertrude Felshin (class of 1925), and the first woman intern Rose Speigel; and George Baehr’s work with the Consultation Serivces and early animal kidney transplants, including her own role in Baehr’s kidney transplants as an anesthesiologist.

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This is a recording of a conversation between John Garlock, MD and Ralph Colp, MD circa 1946. In this recording they discuss a conversation Colp had with Frank Lahey regarding why Garlock was not yet a member of the American Surgical Association or taken into the American Gastroenterological Association. They also discuss why Colp has not proposed Garlock to the American Surgical association. Colp mentions cases and examples that have led him to doubt Garlock's intellectual honesty. Garlock defends himself and explains why Colp’s statements have unsettled him. Together they dispute these instances and determine that once Garlock shows Colp that he did in fact report a case in which he attached the wrong loop of ileum to the bowel at a surgical conference then they would go together to talk to Frank Lahey and let him arbitrate.

Dr. Turner, former Director of Mount Sinai Hospital, mentions his early years of school and medical training, his experiences in the Army and how he came to work at Mount Sinai Hospital. He describes his working relationships with Dr. Goldwater and Mr. Blumenthal, mentioning facts of their work habits and personalities; he also comments on the same for A.A. Berg, A.V. Moschcowitz, Eli Moschcowitz, and Edwin Beer. He makes interesting observations on levels of service for private, semi-private and wards, and for the working situations of non-medical staff in the early to mid-20th century. The interview concludes with a discussion about his hobbies, particularly photography.