Catherine Milton was a consultant otolaryngologist at Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells. She was born in Bristol on 6 April 1951, the middle of three children. Her brothers were Kevin and Richard. Her parents, Maureen and Robert, were both primary school teachers. The family moved in Catheri

Ghassan Hanna was a Palestinian who left his troubled homeland during the Six-Day War of 1967 to realise his dream of becoming a doctor; he subsequently made his home in Britain, where he became a successful ENT surgeon. He was born into a Palestinian Christian family in Nablus on 19 October 1949, o

Chris Newbegin was a consultant ENT surgeon at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. He was born on 11 January 1953 in London. He was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and went on to study medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. He originally planned on becoming an orthopaedic surgeon, bu