Berish Strauch, Path Breaker in Reconstructive Surgery, Dies at 90
Berish Strauch, a plastic surgeon whose pioneering procedures and devices to reattach or replace vital body parts included one of the first toe-to-thumb transplants, a device to reverse vasectomies and, perhaps most notably, the first inflatable prosthetic penis, died on Dec. 24 in Greenwich, Conn. He was 90. His daughter, Laurie Strauch Weiss, said the…