MItchel Berger's Online Review Report Card

ONE OF THE BEST ❤️ GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL

Amazing and excellent doctor

There are no words to express my gratitude for Dr. Berger! When I was first diagnosed a neurosurgeon at UCLA gave me the likelyhood of only a 70-85% resection with 5-10 years to live. The next surgeon at Hoag gave me the best opportunity...he sent me to Dr. Berger at UCSF! He told me if Dr. Berger could do it i would likely have decades ahead of me.He’s honestly the best of the best! He resected ALL of the tumor into the healthy white matter without losing ANY language or motor skills. The UCSF neuro-oncologist told me that no other surgeon could have done for me what Dr. Berger did!My tumor location was in between the frontal and temporal lobes in a space called the insular. The first 2 doctors said they had only done 10-20 in this region (its somewhat rare) and that I would remain asleep for the surgery. Dr. Berger...he had done 377 of this surgery! He suggested his own awake, brain mapping technique. He wanted to keep me awake so that he could get the largest resection possible while still keeping me who I am! I have a 3 year old so words cannot express my gratitude to him for this! I am currently only 7 day’s post surgery...im on many drugs, but recovering well! I’m anxious for my next 50 years, Dr. Berger (holding you to that whether you meant to say it during my awake surgery portion or not 😘). Sooo much gratitude and sooo much love to you and your family! May God bless you the way He has allowed you to bless others.Jackie

Let me start off by saying my wife and I are here now. Dr Berger removed a tumor the size of a baseball from her frontal lobe. He is rumored to be the best neurosurgeon in the world. Well when others didn't want to touch this tumor or acted like it could not be done this man never even studdered his word when he looked me in the eye and said he would take it out and a full resection. He was sent to us from God and I truly will believe that for as long as we both live. He is the nicest most caring person. If you need brain surgery and you can at all possible find the means of coming to him then that would probably be of best interest. We flew 2000 miles to see him from west Virginia. He truly is one of a kind.

Ratings above relate to the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.I went to see Dr. Berger at the UWMC in Seattle 17 years ago for a second opinion on a brain tumor diagnosis.(Now called oligoastrocytoma?). He informed me that he was the best there was in the field and took quite a bit of time to explain both what was happening and what to expect with the surgery. The surgery was performed a few months later (I had just started my own CPA practice and did not want to give it up since the seizure occurred in January)Surgery went very well, but no radiation at that time.About 8 years later, I had another seizure which indicated some regrowth.By this time Dr. Berger had moved to San Francisco, but wanted to look over my scans anyway and if another surgery was indicated, he wanted to do it. Since the regrowth was too close to an area controlling my left side, it was determined that 6 week radiation treatment was the best way to go.I was sorry to see him leave UWMC and would not hesitate to go down to SF if Ineeded more neurosurgery. It was a great opportunity for him, and he fully deserved the promotion.