Draft:Bertel Bager
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Bertel Bager
Bertel Bager was the son of the landowner Ernst Bager and grandson of Johan Peter Bager. He became a student in Nyköping in 1908 and then studied at Uppsala University where he became a medical candidate in 1913 and a medical licentiate in 1918. In 1930 he became a doctor of medicine at the Karolinska Institutet. After appointments in surgery and obstetrics, among others at Maria Hospital in Stockholm, Bager became in 1928 acting infirmary physician at the surgical department in Norrköping, in 1931 infirmary physician at the surgical and obstetrics department in Örnsköldsvik, in 1938 chief physician at the surgical department at the Central Hospital in Stocksund and in 1940 head of the Medical Board's preparation bureau. He undertook several foreign study trips and published numerous writings on surgical and social medical subjects. Bager is buried in the Danderyd cemetery.[1]