Doc Down Under

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Gender Male
Occupation Emergency Medicine
Location brisbane, queensland, Australia
Introduction Mid-Career US EM RT EM Physician,FACEP, taking a sabbatical teaching Emergency Medicine in Brisbane Australia, courtesy of Queensland Health (tuvm), Full time home in Cooperstown, New York, USA...
Interests Healthcare Systems and Policy, Music, Travel/ Hiking, Organic Gardening, Cooking/ Localvore/ Foodie/ Wine, Guitar, People and places....
Favorite Movies LOTR, Sound of Music, does Spinal Tap count as a movie? I'm not really a movie buff though, see Music below
Favorite Music It's got to be real, and real good...Classical: Vaughn Williams, Delius, Mozart, JS Bach, John Williams (guitarist), Ancient and Early Music... Classic Rock: esp. British and US 70's; Beatles, old analog Allmans, CCR, Who/Zep/Stones/Faces, the usual suspects, up to SRV, REM and U2..., Acoustic/ Roots, Singer/songwriter, (esp. that guy o.g.nolan...hehe..)Too many to name right now, but Leo Kottke, Bruce Cockburn(early), Dylan, Neil Young, Lyle Lovett... Jack Johnson speaks to me at times as well, Very little post 1990 or so has any ability to make me feel, maybe My Morning Jacket or Miranda Lambert, oh yeah, small combo Jazz from the 50-60's, esp. Blue Note...but Miles, Chet Baker, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Mingus, Ella, Jobim....sweet.. Any suggestions from the readership, I'm always interested, .
Favorite Books Thoreau-Walden, Frost- Collected Poems, McCullough-John Adams, Tolkien-LOTR Trilogy. Early American, Colonial-era History, esp. Kenneth Roberts and Allan Eckert..For an Australian primer, In a Sunburnt Country-Bill Bryson, The Fatal Shore-Robert Hughes, if you have a strong stomach for abject inhumanity....