Mike's Choices

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Doctor Mike

I AM DOCTOR MIKE

I have been a doctor since 1976, a Cardiac anaesthetist for 20 years and have now retired. I've rescued people off mountains in a helicopter and watched others die on an operating table. I have worked for Festival Medical Services (a charity who provide medical support at Glastonbury, Reading and Glade festivals) since 1981 and have seen and dealt with a myriad of problems from drugs/alcohol misuse to acute trauma.

As a medical student (in the 1970s) I took drugs (LSD, amphetamines, dope etc., etc.) and have experienced life! I have also been a patient, having Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Multiple Sclerosis and have some idea of what patients go through in hospital. I am a happy and “upbeat” sort of a person and have an optimistic outlook on life and can see that even when things are bad, it helps to look on the bright side of life!

I've made some good decisions and some very bad decisions in my life but I have always tried to make a positive choice based on experience, common sense and, lastly, evidence based medicine.

Choices

If you have a problem or dilemma, be it medical or social or drugs related, I can't tell you what to do, but I will give you choices. I will tell you what my choice would be, but give you other choices that are evidence based and you may not have considered.

Making decisions

This website is NOT about medical advice only, but IS about making decisions where the answer is not clear (to you), whatever the problem, be it family, friends, career, drugs advice or medical advice. And it is aimed at young people.

My favoured option

I will give you the choices that I think you have and my favoured option for you.

Young people

I've dealt with young people who have had emotional problems, drugs problems, medical problems or family problems.

Surgery & anaesthesia

For medical advice my area of expertise is surgery/anaesthesia. This website is for you to take the choice, when you have been offered surgery and don't know whether to take up the offer or continue on medical therapy, or are worried about an aspect of the anaesthetic or any other questions you may have.

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