Myer Glick was a general surgeon in New South Wales, Australia. Born in Leeds on 8 September 1913, he was the twelfth child and seventh son of Isaac Norman Glick, a businessman, and his wife Rachel née Berk. His father died prematurely while he was still young. His elder brother, Louis, who was the sixth son, also qualified in medicine and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians After primary education at Darley Street and Cowper Street Schools, he attended the City of Leeds School followed by Leeds University from which he graduated MB ChB in 1936. During house jobs at Leeds Infirmary and St James Hospital he was mentored by Ethelbert Rest Flint and Philip Rowland Allison. He then moved to London and worked at St Giles’ Hospital, Camberwell, and the Brompton – during these years he was influenced by Sir Clement Price Thomas, William Paton Cleland and Norman Rupert Barrett. During the second world war he served as a surgeon lieutenant commander in the RNVR. He passed the fellowship in 1948 and sometime after that moved to Australia passing his FRACS in 1956. Eventually he became a member of the Australasian Society of Occupational Medicine, the Australasian Ergonomics Society and the Australasian Thoracic Society. He was also honorary secretary and president of the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home for the Aged. In 1946 he married Miss Sebel and they had two sons. During his university years he played rugby and captained the boxing team. Louis predeceased him in 1989 and he died on 9 February 2001, aged 87.