Dr. Arthur Vidrine was a medical doctor from Ville Platte, Louisiana. He is best known for operating on politician Huey Long after Long was shot.
Dr. Vidrine was named superintendent of Charity Hospital. In May, 1931 Governor Huey Long named Dr. Vidrine as the first dean of the newly established Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans.
Dr. Vidrine operated on Huey Long in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on September 9, 1935 after Long was shot. It became necessary for Dr. Vidrine to perform the two hour surgery, during which he 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. Dr. Vitrine was later criticized by other doctors for failing to notice Long's kidney wound that caused internal bleeding and ultimately led to his death.
ArthurVidrine was a physician from Ville Platte, the seat of Evangeline Parish in south Louisiana, who was best known for having operated on Democratic U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr.
A veteran of World War I, Vidrine 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 later criticized by other doctors for having failed to recognize a kidney wound that caused internal bleeding and which ultimately led to Long's death.
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