Michael Dawson was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA. He was born on 17 March 1945 in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, the second child and only son of Wilfred Ernest Dawson, a physicist, and Phyllis May Dawson née Osborne, the daughter of a railway fireman. He attende

Chris Good was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Newham General, Queen Mary's and Blackheath hospitals in London. He was born in Barnstaple, Devon, in 1946. His father was clerk of works for South Molton. When Chris was eight the family moved to Northern Rhodesia; his father became cler