Fond memories of Dr. Berg

It is with sadness that I read in the paper of the passing of Dr. Ralph Berg. As a graduate of Sacred Heart School of Nursing, it was my pleasure to work for and learn from the great doctors like Dr. Berg when I worked in the fairly new established Open Heart, Intensive Care, Coronary Care, Dialysis unit. I was also working there when the first coronary bypass surgery was performed.

It was such an honor to work for these physicians, such as Dr. Berg, Dr. Kendall, Dr. Duvoisin and Dr. Everhart, who were always in search of better ways to improve people’s lives. These physicians had high expectations and challenged us always as nurses to perform to our greatest potential.

A few years later, I attended an advanced coronary care workshop in Nashville in which a cardiologist, Dr. Feist, recognized the great, progressive and very successful work done in Spokane in care of the coronary care patients in general and bypass surgery in particular.

Carol Belton, RN, MS

Spokane