About

I always like maths and engineering. However, when the time came for me to choose what to do in the university, I decided to take up medicine as 'I want to help patients'. I found out in a couple of years that I didn't really like medicine but I finished the degree anyway and became a doctor. While I was a trainee anaesthetist in Truro, I went to a flea market one day and found a book of partial differential equations. I bought it and went home to read. Then I said to myself, 'Hey, I can still do these maths'. I looked at some courses that universities offered and found 'MSc in Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering' at University of Sheffield. And they accepted candidates who are from biological disciplines but they need to achieve at least degree level of engineering maths. So I spoke to the course director and lecturers. They suggested me to go through the undergraduate engineering maths textbook, which I did in a month. I enrolled in the course and that was the start of my career change. After the MSc, I went on to do a PhD in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering and did research in universities for over 15 years and now I am developing an Android app for people with disabilities.

The reason for this blog is that after going through medical training, I thought that I knew quite enough about different common conditions to go through life but how wrong I am. I hope to discuss these issues from the perspective of someone who has worked in the clinical environment but also has come out of it and due to having a child with Down Syndrome, has met a lot of people with all sorts of disabilities.