Arthur Vidrine
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Arthur Vidrine was a physician from Ville Platte, Louisiana|Ville Platte, the seat of Evangeline Parish in Louisiana. He is best known for having operated on U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., after Long was shot in the state capitol in Baton Rouge.
He was educated at Tulane University in New Orleans, the University of Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), and at hospitals in London and Paris.
Vidrine was named superintendent of Charity Hospital in New Orleans. In May 1931 then Governor Huey Long appointed Vidrine dean of the newly established Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans.
Vidrine operated on Long in Baton Rouge on September 9, 1935, after Long had been shot. It became necessary to perform the two-hour operation, during which Vidrine repaired two small wounds in the colon and sutured the abdomen closed, when the two surgeons Long had called for from New Orleans were delayed. Vidrine was later criticized by other doctors for failure to recognize a kidney wound that caused internal bleeding and which ultimately led to Long's death.
[edit] External link
'Double Bed Charity', Time (29 November 1937)
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