Aspi Homi Doctor was a thoracic surgeon in Fort Pierce, Florida. Born in Bombay on 4 September 1939 he was the third child and only son of Homi Doctor, a bank cashier, and his wife Mehra née Messman. Educated at St Sebastian High School, he then proceeded to the University of Bombay and studied medicine at Grant Medical College. He did house jobs at the Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy group of hospitals where he his surgical mentors were Lt. Col. D R Bharucha and M P Mehta. He travelled to the UK to further his studies. Awarded the Hallett Prize in 1969, he also won four gold medals for outstanding performance in the MS examination. He passed the college fellowship in 1972 and the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the same year. While in London he worked at Barts and the Brompton Hospitals where he was influenced by Lord Russell Brock and Oswald Sydney Tubbs. At the time of his early death he was practising as a thoracic surgeon in Fort Pierce, Florida. His interests were cricket, table tennis and swimming. When he died on 6 August 1995 aged 56 the Indian River State College in Fort Pierce inaugurated an annual Dr Aspi Doctor memorial swim in his honour which is still being held.