Just finished listening to the Danny O'Brien talk - it's killed my productivity at work for the past hour, but it was a fascinating talk.... As for your request... after the end of that talk, I'm not sure I want to put out any more information about myself! Ah well - I suppose there's already most of my life on the internet... what does one more blurb matter... I am in no way connected with any kind of medical profession either through work or hobbies. When I was at uni in Bristol, I lived with one medical student (who I haven't seen for ages, but who DOES, I discovered, read this blog!) and was good friends with 4 others (3 of whom are now doctors (I'm going to be very careful in Bristol for a while....). I've also got another friend who's doing his LAS training in Hatfield at the moment... Who knows - he may end up doing a placement at Newham! (I have encouraged him to check out this blog, but I don't think he's quite got around to it yet...) So what do I do? Well, I've been working in the film industry for the past 20 months, working on visual effects for features. It's something I've wanted to do since I saw Jurassic Park when I was about 12... For me, it's a fantastic job that I love. I have my own blog, although it's been a bit quiet there recently, that talks about the low-budget visual effects work that I do on various friends' films. I'm not a hugely experienced writer, and my writing is very functional, but I'd like to think that it's interesting to people who are interested in that kind of thing (if anyone does go and take a look and find it pretty boring, don't say I didn't warn you...) I've been reading your blog for, I suppose, about a year - I think you were in the middle of your HIV scare when I first started... If my memory serves me right, it was a BBC article about blogging that brought me to your door. Thanks for a fascinating view into an occupation that is so very different to my own. My only worry is that I may feel that I know enough just from reading this to be dangerous without being helpful.... -- Hugh