Sir Theodore "Robbie" Fortescue Fox FRCP (26 November 1899 – 19 June 1989) was a British physician and medical editor.
[2] After graduating from Leighton Park School in 1918, Theodore Fox, as a Quaker, joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit and served in France for eight months.
After education at the University Cambridge and medical training at the London Hospital, he qualified MRCS, LRCS (i.e.
After a round trip to India as a ship's surgeon, Fox undertook, in 1925, locum work at the editorial office of The Lancet.
Short visits to the Soviet Union (1954), China (1957), the United States (1960) and Australia and New Zealand (1963) were cues for penetrating articles on what had been achieved and what was lacking in the health systems of these countries.
He gave in 1963 the Heath Clark lectures, which were published as Crisis in Communication (London, The Athlone Press, 1965).