One white gown with printed red "The Mount Sinai Hospital" logo on the front, plain blue cotton cap and white mask

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• This Youtube channel is from the Mount Sinai Department of Neurosurgery. It includes videos put out by the department, including various academic presentations and interviews with neurosurgery residents.

This small collection, (inclusive dates: 1888-1928), is comprised primarily of eight folders of reprints of Abbe's published articles on a variety of medical case studies, and a number of reprint articles about Abbe by others (1 folder). The remaining twelve folders include: an address by Abbe to soldiers leaving for World War I from Maine; a 70th birthday dinner menu, and a bound volume of transcriptions of congratulatory letters on the same occasion; out-going letters to nephew Hubert Howson and niece Helen Louise Howson, Robert Abbe MacKenzie, a distant relative and namesake, and Carrie Bath, the St. Luke's Director of Nursing, recommending two Bar Harbor, Maine women for the program; an article on his donation of artifacts of prominent medical figures to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; several small drawings and doggerel ("comic verse composed in irregular rhythm") by Abbe; recollections of him by Robert Abbe MacKenzie; a memorial book of quotes from Abbe's writings; and a few photographs including formal portraits of Abbe, and prints of images he made of his family in Maine, taken from Lumiere autochrome plates, as well as the original autochrome plates. Note that the photographs have been removed from the collection and added to the Mount Sinai Archives Photograph Collection, and need to be requested separately for viewing.

The Kirschner Papers include historical material gathered to write papers on the history of thoracic surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital, as well as the history of the New York Thoracic Surgical Society.

This collection contains the private practice records of Dr. Arpad G. C. Gerster. They span almost his entire career as a surgeon in New York City, from 1881-1923. These records are contained in three bound volumes and five boxes. The patient cards were received in three wooden boxes.
The volumes, which were personalized for Dr. Gerster, contain chronological patient records from January 1, 1881 to July 24, 1906. Each patient record has pre-printed slots for the following information: date, age, name and dwelling, business and nativity, diagnosis, treatment, and remarks. Dr. Gerster completed these categories. However, he often had little or nothing to say under 'remarks' and sometimes did not include 'age.' 'Business' was included less often in later years. Presumably, comments under 'treatment' were not completed when not necessary.
The first volume is entirely in German (except for Latin diagnoses). Some of the early entries in the second volume are in English, and by 1892 they are primarily in English. In the front of each volume is an alphabetical index to patients' case records. The last entry in the third volume is on July 24, 1906.
There is a three year gap between the bound volumes of patient records and the first case in the file boxes, which commences on July 26, 1909. Here, cases numbered from 1 - 442 were recorded on pre-printed cards. Some additional questions are included on these cards. These include: civil state, family history, personal history, previous diseases, date of operation, operator, assistant, anesthetist, anaesthetic, amount and examination of urine (chart to be filled in). On the reverse side are pre-printed anatomical drawings for further notations. These forms were clearly meant for use with patients expecting a surgical procedure. However, these cards were often not completed as many patients did not require surgery. Beginning with case number 444 (January 1911) Dr. Gerster ran out of the pre-printed forms and used plain paper to record his patient information. These records reflect the same information as that on the preprinted cards, however they are more difficult to read.
The patient records reflect a private practice of the time. Although Dr. Gerster functioned as a general physician, his practice revealed a bias towards surgically treatable patients. At this time, it would have been difficult to have an exclusively surgical practice because there would not have been enough business to support it. However, because of Dr. Gerster's abilities and prominence, he came as close as possible to having such a practice. Over the span of the records, the types of cases did not show any significant shift in character. The cases have a great deal of variety. Included among the many diagnoses were rheumatoid arthritis, alcoholic hepatitis, acute nephritis, chronic gastritis, double cleft palate, eczema, inguinal hernia, syphilis, vulva cutis, pulmonary tuberculosis, arteriosclerosis, uterine hemorrhage, and many others.
There are a variety of inserts and attachments found throughout the patient records. These include sketches by Dr. Gerster illustrating ailments and abnormalities of patients; correspondence from physicians introducing patients (a number of these are from out of state and many are not in English); pathology lab reports from both the German Hospital and Mount Sinai regarding excised tissue; correspondence from patients; and two radiographic images. (These images are located in: Case Book Number 3, April 17, 1901, and Card File Box 1, in front of Case 104.)
Private patient records such as these are probably uncommon in hospital archives since they do not directly relate to hospital practice. These records are especially interesting because they occur during a period when surgery became safer and more common and when the rise and dominance of surgery as a method of treatment was seen. Additionally, they are of interest because they are the records of Dr. Gerster, an influential and prominent surgeon during his time.
Dr. Gerster's notes end with case number 3670 on February 23, 1923. The patient records continue to October 27, 1923. An unidentified physician apparently took over Gerster's practice shortly before his (Gerster's) death on March 11, 1923.

Memos and State of New York Office of Health Systems Management Application for Hospital Construction forms regarding renovation of the Labor and Delivery Suite in the Klingenstein Pavilion and the development of an integrated Perinatal Center including Labor and Delivery, Neonatal, and Postpartum functions. Application includes summary, capital costs of the project, operating costs, staffing, and building plans.

This is a recording of the oral history of Samuel Elster, MD interviewed by Richard Steele the Medical Center Archivist at Mount Sinai on July 10th, 1996. Some of the significant topics presented in this oral history are his upbringing as part of a Jewish immigrant family in the Bronx; the difficulty he faced being accepted into medical school; and his experience at New York University Medical School. Dr. Elster worked as a cardiologist at The Mount Sinai Hospital (1950-1997), a faculty member of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine (early 1950s until retirement), and Dean of the Page and William Black Post-Graduate School of Medicine (1976-1986) and the oral history includes anecdotes from his internship and how he received his first surgeries, his residency and duties as Chief Resident, as well as how he increased the hospital’s post-mortem rate, and the spirit of volunteerism he brought to his career at Mount Sinai.

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This oral history interview with Robert Nabatoff, MD was conducted by Arthur Aufses, Jr., MD on January 14, 1998. Lily Leopold Saint, a research assistant, and Robert Litwak, MD, the former Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, were also present.

The interview begins with Dr. Nabatoff discussing his undergraduate and medical education and his early career. Dr. Nabatoff performed some of the earliest major vascular and cardiac surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. He discusses the development of portacaval shunts, local anesthesia through a mitral commissurotomy, and mitral valve operations.

He also discusses how he began to perform varicose vein surgery, of which he performed more than 8,000 during his career. He is credited with making the procedure an outpatient surgery after negotiating between Blue Cross and Mount Sinai. He also talks about his other professional accomplishments, including his extensive publications and the development of a number of novel vein strippers.

The interview also includes more personal topics, such as his world travels, his early childhood and family in Harlem, what drew him to Mount Sinai, and the rarity of Jewish doctors practicing surgery in the 1930s and 1940s. He also discusses Mount Sinai Hospital's strength in treating putrid lung abscesses during that time.

This interview is with Jane Lattes, wife of the late surgeon, Dr. Conrad Lattes, who relates stories about Conrad’s birth in Torino, Italy, and how he came to the U.S. with his father, Raffaele Lattes, who became head of surgical pathology for many years at Columbia, in either 1940 or 1941. She adds some additional information on Raffaele, and how his family were physicians going many years back. She then continues to tell the story of how she and Conrad met at Swarthmore College, how he choose a medical specialty and his early days at a physician and how his career progressed at St. Luke’s. She adds some facts about their children and her current life and husband.

In this interview, Bronx native Robert Della Rocca talks about his youth and educational experiences, his time serving in the Vietnam War, which interrupted his medical training, his various training experiences in oculoplastic and orbital surgery afterwards, and his experiences working at St. Luke’s Hospital (now Mount Sinai Morningside) as well as New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He highlights his family habit of volunteering, with his nursing-trained wife accompanying him as he operated in 15 countries through Latin America, the Dominion Republic, and the Middle East and training over 90 international fellows in his sub-specialty of reconstructive surgery in some of those places in over 22 years of volunteering. Dr. Della Rocca mentions his children, several of whom are following in his medical and volunteering footsteps, and his grandchildren, and touches on the reasons he is so fond of St. Luke’s Hospital.