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I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.