Blue Baby and Acute Coronary Revascularization
Getting to know Ralph Berg, the pioneering open-heart surgeon, was not easy. Many years passed before he was willing to divulge what informed so much of his later work: Jason, his youngest son. But Ralph Berg’s own story began many decades before Jason’s birth.
Ralph became a doctor during World War II and quickly grew fascinated with the human heart. After his chest residency, he assembled a remarkable heart and research team that helped bring open-heart surgery and advanced surgical procedures on blue babies to Spokane, Washington, in 1959. Then, in 1969, with the medical community on the cusp of discovering the cause and treatment of heart attacks, Jason was born to Ralph and Mary Berg—a doomed blue baby.
Learn how Ralph Berg sought to save his son and how he and Dr. Francis Everhart developed the lauded Spokane Experience protocol. Witness the joy Ralph shared with Jason and his family. Blue Baby and Acute Coronary Revascularization is a powerful story about hope, innovation, and the love of family.
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Tracy Berg is a surgeon who was inspired to attend medical school and then surgical residency by her uncle, the incomparable Ralph Berg. She graduated from Washington State University with a BS and MS, then from the University of Maryland with her MD. Tracy did her surgical residency at the University of Maryland. She returned to Spokane in 1995. This is Tracy Berg’s first book.