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34 Detroit Jewish News
SPECIAL
COMMENTARY
Remembering
The Sinai Family
I
have writ-
ten about
several
_/
physicians
who have had a
profound effect
on my career in
obstetrics and
gynecology, but
how does one
DR. JERROLD
H. WEINBERG write about a hos-
pital?
Sp ecial to
Since 1953, L-7
the Jewish News
Sinai Hospital of
Detroit was an
average-sized community hospital,
loosely affiliated with the Wayne State
University School of Medicine and
training four ob/gyn residents per year
plus scores of residents in internal
medicine, general surgery, anesthesiol-
ogy, oral surgery, physical medicine
and rehabilitation, psychiatry, opthal-
mology and other fields. It was found-
ed, as were most American Jewish hos-
pitals, in order to give a place for Jew-
ish doctors to practice when they
weren't welcome elsewhere.
Sinai was one of those places where
you didn't know how good it was until
you left. Graduates from our program_,
often called us to tell us how well pre-
pared they have felt since they entered
practice. When Sinai doctors went to
national meetings, we found that
many of our "routine" practices were
just being introduced to many univer-
sity hospitals.
We sponsored a pioneering interna-
tional medical laser meeting 20 years
ago; one of our doctors, Dr. Milton
Goldrath, invented a procedure to
remove the lining of the uterus to cor-
rect severe menstrual bleeding.
Our department, under the direc-
tion of Dr. Alfred Sherman, did pio-
neer work in fetal monitoring and
laprascopy and trained several univer-
sity professors. For eight years, we
taught a seven-day course twice a year,
teaching laser techniques in gynecolo'--
gy, each attended by 200 people from
around the world.
But none of these highlights really
tell the story of Sinai. Nor do the
memories of my children being born
there or my relatives, friends and
patients being hospitalized there to
recover or to die with dignity, or all
those patients from whom I learned
be a doctor, or all those conference
rooms in which I spent exhilarating
and agonizing (and occasionally bor-
ing) hours.
The real legacy of Sinai Hospital
SINAI FAMILY
on page 36