I'm a practising anaesthetist/ anesthesiologist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. I also have an Honours degree in Anatomical Science.
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My professional interests are obstetric anaesthesia, comparative vertebrate anatomy, the history of medicine and medical education. I am a part time medical writer. Sometimes people even read it. Teaching is a large part of my job and my life.
I live and work in New Zealand, and have worked in Scotland and France. I have two children, from whom I learn a lot.
I am very fond of the Islay malts, and play a bit of guitar. I read voraciously. I try to maintain interests outwith the field of medicine, and most of my friends are not doctors. I am a believer in the Gaia hypothesis, but increasingly sceptical about organised religion of all kinds. I adore chilli peppers and grow my own. I really want to grow a mandrake but worry that the kids might eat it. I am especially poor at chess.
I wrote my honours thesis about elephants, and they remain my second-favourite mammals. Tuataras are, without doubt, the most interesting reptiles in existence.
I adore classic computer games, and have great nostalgia for the BBC Micro and Amiga.
On Wikipedia, I try to confine my major contributions to my area of professional expertise, but I will occasionally tidy up other entries, or add bits and pieces to just about anything.
I am the founder of the ineffectual Society for the Simplification of Ludicrous Drug Names (see below), as well as an enthusiastic subscriber to the Royal College of Pedants, where the sign on the booth reads "I am he through whom enquiry may be made".
My username comes from the character Preacher in the excellent game The Chaos Engine. I don't look like him (although I occasionally dress like him), and I am only a little bit perverse. God is, however, unequivocally on my side. Really.