ABSTRACT
Committed to active clinical practice for most of Nigel Clement Halley Stott career, his work integrated multidisciplinary thinking, dedicated, intuitive patient care and principled rigour in pioneering research and teaching. Leaving the University of Cape Town in 1961, Stott continued his studies at the University of Edinburgh, attaining a first-class BSc (Hons) in pathology and graduating in medicine in 1966. He returned to South Africa to complete six months as a pre-registrar at King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, followed by a surgical placement at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Stott was appointed as senior lecturer for the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1972. Stott worked closely with Robert Harvard Davis to develop one of their first conceptual publications that outlined a framework for encouraging clinicians to explore and use the ‘exceptional potential in each primary care consultation’ to address co-morbidity, offer health promotion and to negotiate help-seeking behaviour with patients.
