Henry Feffer Explained

Birth Name:Henry Leon Feffer
Birth Date:15 January 1918
Birth Place:New York, U.S.
Death Place:Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Field:Medicine, surgeon, spine, orthopedic surgeon, hydrocortisone, back pain, neurosurgeon
Work Institutions:George Washington University Medical School
CARE
The Gallinger Municipal Hospital in Washington, D.C. which later became, the now defunct, District of Columbia General Hospital
United States Army
Howard University College of Medicine
National Zoo
Alma Mater:Indiana University
Indiana University School of Medicine
Spouse:Jean Kaplan Feffer (m.?-1964) (her death) (3 children)
Daisy Berkes Feffer (m.?-2001) (her death) (2 children)

Henry Leon Feffer (January 15, 1918May 9, 2011[1]) of Bethesda, Maryland, was an American neurosurgeon. In the mid-1950s, he was one of the first medical doctors to systematically test whether low-back pain could be relieved with epidural injections of hydrocortisone. Today, physicians routinely give such injections before resorting to more invasive surgery. He was a Washington, D.C. spinal surgeon for more than four decades whose patients included Saddam Hussein.[1]

Early life and childhood

Feffer was born on January 15, 1918, in New York City.

Education

Feffer graduated from Indiana University, and from the Indiana University School of Medicine.His orthopedic surgery internship was in The Gallinger Municipal Hospital in Washington, D.C. which later became, the now defunct, District of Columbia General Hospital.[2]

Career

Feffer was an emeritus professor at George Washington University Medical School.

Death

Feffer died on May 9, 2011, of congestive heart failure at the age of 93.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/henry-feffer-back-surgeon-who-treated-dc-notables-and-gorilla-dies-at-93/2011/05/11/AF7ytNtG_story_1.html
  2. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medtour/dcgeneral.html