David Verinder was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the Bassetlaw Health Authority, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Born in 1945, he studied medicine at Sheffield University Medical School and qualified in 1968. He gained his FRCS in 1973. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior regist

David Campbell studied medicine after overcoming an initial desire to be an engineer. He attended London University and trained at the Royal Free Hospital, graduating in 1967. While there he gained notoriety as a student for hanging a chamber pot on the hook at the end of a massive crane being used