Chandra Bhan Singh was professor of surgery and anatomy at the Medical College, Agra, India. He was born in Akaltara, Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh on 12 January 1900, into a distinguished Rajput family. His father, Thakur Pachkour Singh, was a landlord; his mother was Swarn Kumari Devi Singh. He studied

Soon Wong was a surgeon and former minister of agriculture and social development in Malaysia. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

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Bertram Owen-Smith, or 'Owen' as he was known, was a plastic surgeon in the UK and later in Salisbury, Rhodesia. A member of the 'Guinea Pig Club', the group of injured Second World War airmen treated by the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe, he made the unusual transition from patien

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