To the specialty of gastroenterology, Jerome Siegel, MD, was a leader and pioneer in endoscopy, the author of a multitude of publications including 123 peer-reviewed articles and a textbook on ERCP published in 1991 that remains a standard today, as well as a high-volume provider and a patient advocate. But to his family, friends, colleagues, students and mentees, the list of positive qualities attributable to Dr. Siegel is too long for this paragraph. He was, succinctly, a mensch.
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