Paul Berger (physician)

Paul Berger
by
Evert van Muyden
Caricature of Paul Berger flanked by two of his colleagues from the Faculté de médecine de Paris, Victor Cornil to left holding a pair of lungs, and Felix Guyon to right with a syringe
by Adrien Barrère (1904)

Paul Berger (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɛʁ.ʒe]; 6 January 1845 Beaucourt, Territoire de Belfort – 1908) was a French physician and surgeon who practised in Paris at the Hôpital Tenon and was Professor of Clinical Surgery and Pathology at the Faculté de médecine de Paris. He is noted for Berger's operation, a method of interscapulothoracic amputation, and for improvements in hernia/intestinal suturing.