Arthur MacGregor Morris

bmj;381/may09_10/p997/FAF1faAfter school at Dulwich College, Arthur MacGregor Morris went up to Selwyn College, Cambridge. He graduated in medicine from Guy’s, where he also completed his house jobs. After an anatomy demonstratorship in Newcastle, he completed a surgical rotation in Bristol followed by a one year research post in the breast unit at Guy’s in 1969. He did a registrar job in Canniesburn, Glasgow, and subsequently was senior registrar at Bangour Hospital, Edinburgh. He was appointed consultant plastic surgeon in Tayside, at that time based in Bridge of Earn Hospital. He introduced new ideas and surgical techniques in the rapidly expanding specialty of reconstructive plastic surgery, particularly in the areas of head and neck cancer surgery, cleft lip and palate, and hand surgery. One of his greatest achievements was to plan and build up the department as it moved to a new site at the Dundee Royal Infirmary, and subsequently to…
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