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- Title
HERMAN SUGARMAN, M.D., A PIONEER JEWISH PHYSICIAN OF LOS ANGELES.
- Authors
Weisman, Michaelo H.; Weisman, Elizabeth A.
- Abstract
A biography of Herman Sugarman, a pioneer Jewish physician who arrived in Los Angeles, California in 1912, is presented. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1888 and finished his medical studies from Creighton Medical College in 1910. He continued his education in cardiology at Harvard University in 1915. He married Myrtle Monasch in 1914. A year later, he was appointed chief medical officer for the Santa Fe Railroad, and held gold railroad passes for the rest of their lives. He died in 1932 from pneumonia.
- Subjects
LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; OMAHA (Neb.); NEBRASKA; SUGARMAN, Herman; JEWISH physicians; AMERICAN Jews; BIOGRAPHIES of Jews; MONASCH, Myrtle; STUDY &; teaching of medicine
- Publication
Western States Jewish History, 1985, Vol 17, Issue 3, p218
- ISSN
0043-4221
- Publication type
Biography