Henry Feffer, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, died from heart failure he was , 93

Henry Leon Feffer of Bethesda, Maryland, was an American neurosurgeon died from heart failure he was , 93. In the mid-1950s, he was one of the first 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.

(January 15, 1918 – May 9, 2011^])

Early Life and Childhood

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

Education

He 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

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

Death

 

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