Specialised areas:

• Travel medicine
• Expedition medicine
• Medicolegal (personal injury in road traffic accidents, etc)
• Benefits such as
  BIC Codes bank

  Disability Living Allowance,

• Incapacity Benefit and Industrial Injury Benefit

Current positions:

• Writer & lecturer on travel health
• Medicolegal examiner (personal injury)
• Leader of tours and trekking holidays
• Member of Disability and Incapacity Benefit Appeal Tribunals

Profile:

I am a former GP in the Lake District. I currently work as a freelance writer and lecturer on travel health, examine accident victims in connection with their claims for damages and sit on Appeal Tribunals hearing appeals by unsuccessful benefit claimants. I am interested in chronic pain syndromes e.g. back pain and post-accident neck pain. I am interested in all health problems associated with travel, including expeditions and high altitude problems, having been an expedition doctor and climber and a mountain rescue team doctor. I also lead tours and treks to a variety of countries and have travelled in Africa, Asia and South America.

Media work:

• Television appearance in a programme on asthma.
  antibiotics order

• Radio interviews on travel health topics