Maurice Feldman was a consultant general and vascular surgeon at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham. He was born in Cardiff on 7 August 1927, the youngest son of Lewis Feldman, a retail and wholesale trader, and Leah Feldman née Volozhen, a housewife. He was educated at Wood Street and Roath Park elementary schools in Cardiff and at Cardiff High School for Boys. He then went to Bristol University to study medicine, qualifying in 1951. He held house posts in Weston-super-Mare and in Bristol, and senior house positions at Birmingham Accident Hospital and Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. He was a surgical registrar at City General Hospital, Sheffield, and at City Hospital, Nottingham, and then a senior surgical registrar at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham. In 1968, he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at Dudley Road Hospital. He was also a senior clinical lecturer at Birmingham Hospital. He was the first consultant surgeon to have a special interest in peripheral vascular surgery at Dudley Road Hospital and, with a radiological colleague, he established a very active and successful vascular surgical unit there. He retired in August 1992. He was a member of the Medical Appeals Tribunals Service and of the management committee of the West Midlands Health Research Unit. Between 1953 and 1955 he carried out his National Service as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He saw service in Singapore and Malaya, and was awarded the Malaya medal in 1955. He was a member of the Army Emergency Reserve from 1955 to 1958. Outside medicine, he enjoyed gardening (including working in his allotment), walking and travel, particularly around the UK. In 1959 he married Vera Cohen, a teacher and later deputy head. They had a daughter, Leah, and a son, Adam, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and specialist in renewable energy. Maurice Avrom Feldman died on 4 December 2014. He was 87.