With the last name that he has, it may seem like Dr. Harvey Guttmann was destined to become a gastroenterologist. The Beth Sholom Synagogue board member said he chose the specialty for many reasons, but perhaps the biggest one was that it allowed him to develop long-term relationships with patients.

“What it allowed me to do was to develop relationships with patients longitudinally over the course of time. The beauty of gastroenterology is that we see all types of patients — young and old — with all types of problems: problems with their esophagus, with their stomach, with their colon, with the pancreas, with their liver and bile duct,” he said. “So, it afforded me a variety of different types of diseases [to work on], and it allowed me to really establish what I wanted to do, which is to

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