The Wound that Would Not Heal: How Teddy Roosevelt Died

Speaker: Dr. Richard D. Feldman

In 1902, while on an extended speaking tour, President Theodore Roosevelt was involved in a catastrophic carriage accident in Massachusetts that resulted in a serious injury to his left leg. That fateful injury would lead to continuing health problems for the rest of his life. The injury necessitated emergency surgery - first in Indianapolis, and soon after again in Washington, D.C.

This presentation, for the first time, provides a detailed medical justification for the leg injury being directly connected to his death more than16 years later.

The lecture is based directly on a recent article published in the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, coauthored by Drs. Richard D. Feldman and William H. Dick

Richard D. Feldman, MD, is a graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, and a 1977 graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine. After completing one year of psychiatry residency at Indiana University, he finished his post-graduate medical training at Franciscan Health Indianapolis Family Medicine Residency in 1980.

He has had a long career as a family physician at Franciscan Health Indianapolis, where he served from 1981 to 2018 as program director of the family medicine residency program. He now continues as program director emeritus. He is an assistant clinical professor at Indiana University School of Medicine and an associate professor at the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

He served as Indiana's 20th state health commissioner from 1997 to 2001. He has received two Sagamores of the Wabash for his service to Indiana.

Sponsored by Benny Ko and Bill Dick