This website is a store of books, blogs and other writing. I am an ex-doctor, and an active family therapist. A bit of background might explain what and how I write. Before arriving at Cambridge to begin a degree in history I abruptly decide to become a doctor, which requires me to switch from one kind of writing to another. A historian has personal opinions and doubts, if not emotions, but a clinical scientist is supposed to be an invisible recorder of facts. Rule number one: never say 'I'. I stop being a doctor in 2013 but am can’t stop thinking about medicine. The result is three books (described on the BOOKS page). The first of these, Meanings of ME (Palgrave 2015), is an academic multi-author work. It is about chronic fatigue syndrome or ME. In one of the chapters I break science’s taboo and use the first person singular. How could I not, in a book with meanings in its title? Next is Between Sickness and Health (Routledge 2019), which rethinks the assumptions doctors and their patients make about illness and wellness. There is more ‘I’ in this book, because its ideas stem from a lifetime of personal practice. The latest book, due in the Spring of 2026, is Becoming a Doctor. Re-Membering a Medical Education (First Hill Books). It is written for anyone who wonders why doctors are the way they are. Part of the answer comes from describing what medical education and practice has done to me, personally. But it’s not a memoir in the narrow sense. Being a family therapist as well as an ex-physician makes it necessary to think in terms of relationships. Becoming a Doctor is as much about the context in which students, doctors and patients learn about illness as it is about me personally. Besides relationships, the other constant is history. Just as each of us is made of what we are becoming, so is modern medicine itself. Historical context profoundly influences meaning. The WRITING page houses various pieces of writing, some with origins in my work as a clinical academic and some that link with my identity as a practising family therapist. The last section of the website is a blog. I will be happy if you give me your thoughts about any of this, because even a single thoughtful reader makes writing worthwhile. The best reward of all is a creative conversation, so I will do my best to respond.