Education
He graduated in medicine from Edinburgh in 1931.
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George Whyte-Watson
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Career
After an appointment as house surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, he went to Bradford in 1932. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1936 and was appointed consultant surgeon to Street Luke"s Hospital and Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1946. Whyte-Watson was also surgeon to Bingley Hospital and Westwood Hospital.
Throughout the region he had a high reputation for his surgical skill, and was known for his kindly handling of patients.
Whyte-Watson was instrumental in getting self-examination included as part of the procedure for detecting breast cancer. George Whyte-Watson died in 1974 and is commemorated along with Professor Robert Lowry Turner with a plaque which can be found in Bradford Cathedral.
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1974 (aged 66)