bobbury.info

I’m a retired Consultant Radiologist. I spent 23 years working in the UK in Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, having returned to the NHS in 1988 after 16 years in the RAF Medical Branch. I started as an Air Force GP (family practitioner), then trained as a surgeon for four years, including 4 months with 55 Field Surgical Team in the middle east,  before finally settling on radiology as my chosen specialty. I had a special interest in Nuclear Medicine (the use of radio-isotopes in diagnosis) and also took the clinical lead for the hospital (and for the Royal College of Radiologists) on radiation protection issues – hence the material on this site relating to radiation hazards and risk perception in general.

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My research interests and publications have centred on the development of new digital imaging technology, but my main contributions to academic radiology have been in the field of editing and publishing. I was a member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Radiologyfor a number of years, and was Editor-in-Chief from 2006-2010, In the past, I was a member of the editorial boards of Yorkshire Medicine and Radiology Now. I’m author or co-author of three textbooks of radiology, I’ve also written for The Times and The Yorkshire Post, and I published this eBook on Amazon, aimed at increasing public understanding of medical issues in the 21st century.

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In retirement, I trained with The British Humanist Association (now rebadged as Humanists UK) to become a humanist celebrant, and I officiated at getting on for a hundred non-religious funerals over several years. I then trained in non-religious pastoral care, and became volunteer Humanist Chaplain to Leeds Hospitals, and I’m pleased to say that the Trust has now appointed a full-time paid humanist pastoral carer as part of the chaplaincy team.

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I have a lovely and long-suffering wife, four grown-up children, and seven grandchildren.  The mortgage is paid off, I’ve retired from full-time work, and I thought that before I was too caught up in the inexorable downward spiral into incontinence and senility I should bite the bullet and set up this site. I hope that some of you will find it helpful or even interesting.

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You'll see a number of pages about stuff that interests me, and the 'blog' page is really just a space for me to air my opinions, sometimes on serious stuff, but often on trivia.