Andrew Veitch Foote

Andrew Veitch Foote was brought up in Lochgelly, Fife, where his father was the provost and a local general practitioner. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After a period of national service in the Royal Air Force, he entered surgical training in Yorkshire, thereafter moving to Edinburgh as registrar in cardiothoracic surgery to Andrew Logan. He then undertook research—initially in the cardiac surgery department UCLA, Los Angeles, and subsequently under the watchful gaze of Sir John Bruce at the gastrointestinal unit, Western General Hospital. Although he …