Marcus Andreas Froehling was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1956. He was educated at the Freie Georgenschule in Reutlingen from 1962 to 1972 and the Friederich-List-Gymnasium also in Reutlingen from 1972 to 1975 when he matriculated. He studied medicine at Heidelberg University from 1976 to 1977, the Eberhard-Karls University in Tubingen from 1977 to 1982 and the Goethe University in Frankfurt where he specialised in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine. After working in various hospitals in Bremen and Frankfurt, he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in 1994 at the University Hospital in Frankfurt. In 2002 he worked as head of the centres of knee and hip joint replacement and spine surgery at the Ellenriede Hospital in Hanover and the Klinik am Zuckerberg Private Hospital in Braunschweig. Two years later, he became part of the ‘brain drain’ of an estimated 2,600 German doctors who came to the UK to escape, as he put it, *the land of bad pay, long working hours , all encroaching bureaucracy and rigid organization.* From 2004 to 2006 he worked at the private Capio Euxton Hall and Renacres Hall Hospitals in the North West, performing some 600 hip and knee joint replacements. He then became chief medical officer and lead orthopaedic surgeon at the Cheshire and Merseyside NHS treatment centre in Liverpool and stayed there for five years. While he was there he also studied for an MBA in international hospital and healthcare management from 2007 to 2009 at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He passed the fellowship of the college in 2011 and set up a back pain clinic in Salford – the Froehling Clinic – while also acting as lead orthopaedic surgeon at the Nantwich Health Centre. He retired from both places in 2013 and returned to Frankfurt where he became chief medical officer at the Capio Deutsche Klinik GmbH, retiring in 2019. Outside medicine he was interested in politics and travel and enjoyed playing the cello, sailing and flying. He died in Germany on 12 April 2022 aged 65.