{"id":5201,"date":"2021-02-10T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2021-02-10T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T09:40:05","slug":"obituary-sandy-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/obituary-sandy-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Sandy Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of one of our Patient Partners Sandy Smith.\u00a0 Sandy has been a Patient Partner (formerly known as volunteer patient) at the School of Medicine since 2014.\u00a0 He has been a loyal supporter of medical education, coming to the school with his wife Margaret to share his health experiences with undergraduate students to aide their learning.\u00a0 We would like to extend our sincere condolences to his wife Margaret, who helped him get to the School for teaching, and to his family.\u00a0 Sandy will be greatly missed by us all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5202 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2021\/02\/Sandy-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of one of our Patient Partners Sandy Smith.\u00a0 Sandy has been a Patient Partner (formerly known as volunteer patient) at the School of Medicine since 2014.\u00a0 He has been a loyal supporter of medical education, coming to the school with his wife Margaret to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":5202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 15:18:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}