Archie Hutchison

Born into a medical household in the Ayrshire mining village of Muirkirk, where his father was a GP, Archie Hutchison resolved on a career in medicine from an early age. He went from the High School of Glasgow to the city’s then only university. After house jobs at the Victoria Infirmary (his local hospital) and the Royal Infirmary he did two years’ national service with what he described as “a very posh regiment” in Hong Kong. He started his surgical training after his return. After a year in Dumfries he gained a general surgical post at the Victoria Infirmary, where he worked with Iain MacPherson, Robert Mailer, and Ian Gordon. Although the Victoria …