He graduated from, and from the Indiana University School of Medicine. His orthopedic surgery internship was in The Gallinger Municipal Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia which later became, the now defunct, District of Columbia General Hospital.
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, District of Columbia spinal surgeon for more than four decades whose patients included Saddam Hussein.
Feffer was born on January 15, 1918 in New New York
He was an emeritus professor at George Washington University Medical School. Feffer died on May 9, 2011 of congestive heart failure at 93.
