Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

Arizona Medical Board record: M. David Ben-Asher MD; license date: 4/21/1962; medical school: U OF BUFFALO, SUNY SCH OF MED & BIOMEDICAL SCI; graduation date: 06/10/1956; address: 4733 N 1st Ave, Tucson; areas of interest: internal medicine and nephrology.
Pima County Medical Society (Tucson, Arizona). Sombrero., December 1984.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

MD? LLD? Middle initial “K.”[?]

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: “Bendell” and “Bendall.”
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, pages 70-71,73, 329.

Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the ... United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1872, page 327: H. Bendell, Esq., Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Prescott, Arizona Territory

Appointed superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital Jun 1, 1941. Arizona Medical Board record: Otto L. Bendheim MD; license date: 7/6/1938; medical school: UNIV OF MI MED SCH, Ann Arbor, Michigan; graduation date: 06/20/1936; address: 5051 N 34th St Ste 1, Phoenix; area of interest: psychiatry.
Arizona State Hospital. Milestones; a history of seventy-five years of progress ... 1887-1962. [Phoenix? 1962?], page 10.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Food/ chemical laboratory specialist.

Mentioned in the 10/12/1948 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954, etc. Referred to as “Jack Bennett” in the 1951-10-04-03 minutes. Arizona Medical Board record: John K. Bennett MD; license date: 7/12/1948; medical school: MC GILL UNIV, FAC OF MED; graduation date: 05/30/1940.

Same person?
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1946; 131: 981: ARMY MEDICAL CORPS OFFICERS RECOMMENDED FOR/OR RELIEVED FROM ACTIVE DUTY. Maine. Bennett, John K. ... Rangeley.

Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners record: Paul W. Bennett, DDS; address: 11865 Injun Pl, Tucson, AZ 85749; license number: D00488; license issued: 01/01/1951.

See 1/20/1931 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: Clarence E. Bensema MD; license date: 7/29/1930; medical school: UNIV OF IL COLL OF MED, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/08/1929. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: Desert Sanatorium, Tucson.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Mentioned in 12/9/1924 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 as Miss Benson; subsequently as Minnie Benson (e.g. 10/10/1933 minutes: recipient of a letter of appreciation for work done in behalf of Referendum No. 304.) Listed in 1948 Tucson City Directory as property owner of 1620 Heddrick Drive which then had the telephone number 2818 (the number for the “Doctors Central Directory”).

Practiced 1949-1957. Arizona Medical Board record: Initial License Issue Date: 07/26/1948.
Johnson, Scott. Something more: osteopathic medicine in southern Arizona. Tucson, Ariz. : Osteopathic Press, 1992, page 105.

Practiced 1949-1962. Johnson, Scott. Arizona Medical Board record: Initial License Issue Date: 07/26/1948.
Something More… 1992, pp. 33, 105.

Arizona Medical Board record: James J. Berens MD; license number: 2543; licensed date: 10/24/1953; medical school: UNIV OF CINCINNATI COLL OF MED, Cincinnati, Ohio; graduation date: 06/08/1945

James J. Berens. REAPPRAISAL OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MAMMARY CARCINOMA. J Am Med Assoc. 1959;170(12):1365-1369
James J. Berens. Thermal Contact Burns From Streets and Highways. JAMA. 1970;214(11):2025-2027

Probably the same person:

Appointed superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital Jan 15, 1937. Arizona Medical Board record: Benjamin M. Berger MD; license date: 1/17/1928; medical school: UNIV OF LOUISVILLE SCH OF MED; graduation date: 06/13/1908.
Arizona State Hospital. Milestones; a history of seventy-five years of progress ... 1887-1962. [Phoenix? 1962?], page 10.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Mentioned in the 2/10/1942 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.

Possible match?
BERGQUIST Ehrling Lloyd 1905-1949 (unverified)
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1932; 98: 1491: Marriages. Ehrling L. Bergquist, Flushing, N. Y., to Miss Gertrude Babcock of Fairfield, Conn., March 5.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1930; 95: 351: The following changes of station in the army have been announced : ... Lieut. Ehrling L. Bergquist sailed from San Francisco about July 30 for New York; on arrival he will proceed to Fort Totten for duty.