Andrew Drain was a cardiothoracic surgeon who was born in Northern Ireland on 9 June 1974. In 2006 he worked in the department of cardiothoracic surgery at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. He was working at a prestigious New York hospital and about to return to the UK as a consultant when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, aged 33 in September 2007. He was given chemotherapy and returned to Ireland - to Broughshane, near Ballymena - to have a bone marrow transplant. Initially he was thought to have been cured and preached a series of sermons on the book of Job. When he relapsed in June 2009 he wrote a book *Code red* about his sufferings and how his Christian faith had helped him to accept his fate, an obituarist commented "he found through Job that he could face death with confidence because 'I know that my Redeemer lives'". He died on 3 July 2010 survived by his wife, Ruth and children Josh, Conor and Olivia. Publications:- Pride or prejudice: an insight into surgical mentality. *Ulster med j* 2006 75 (3) p 174 *Code red *Christian Medical Fellowship, 2010.