Patrick Stewart Boulter FRCS, FRCSEd (28 May 1927 – 30 November 2009) was a general surgeon in Guildford, England.
He was born in 1927 in Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, His father Frederick Charles Boulter was a civil engineer, and his mother was Flora Victoria (née Black).
While at school he developed a love of the outdoors and walking, hill climbing and mountaineering were to become pastimes which he continued to enjoy for the rest of his life.
While waiting to return to his medical studies at Guy's, he worked at the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, where his admiration for the surgeon Bill McKechnie decided him to pursue a career in surgery.
He became a consultant general surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford in 1962 developing a sub-speciality interest in endocrinology and breast cancer.
[5] The Guildford centre was one of seven that took part in the first major multicentre UK trial of screening for breast cancer.