Gas Man

10… 9… 8… 7… 6…

That’s about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you lie in an oversized paper napkin, waiting for surgery to begin – and that’s all most people know about what I do.

In my first year as a consultant anaesthetist, I’ve learned that:

a) No one has a clue what an anaesthetist does.

b) No one has a clue what happens in an operating theatre.

c) A children's hospital is a hilarious place to work.

d) Being a new consultant is stressful.

Mostly embarrassing, sometimes funny, definitely quirky and certainly true to life, Gas Man follows Dr Colin Black through five levels of training across three countries until he manages to morph into something resembling a consultant anaesthetist at the largest children’s hospital in Ireland.