Sleeping with the Gasman

Who or what is an anaesthetist? That strange individual who attends a patient on the morning of major surgery and says, “Hello, it was you I was looking for.”

Is that person a technician? Is that person a doctor?

As the patient, you are about to put your life entirely in their hands. As a patient would you not like to know more about this shady character, the gasman or the gasoose?

Sleeping with the Gasman is written as a story by an anaesthetist. It is based on personal experiences, observations, stories and anecdotes.

Ultimately, the patient and the gasoose are both human, or are they?

Jazz Pal-Kerr was born in Nottingham in 1964. He graduated from medical school in 1988. Jazz spent over seven years in the profession as a trainee in anaesthetics and intensive care. He was honoured to become a consultant in 1998 in his chosen speciality of medical practice.

During his years as a medical trainee and subsequently as a consultant anaesthetist he worked in over thirty hospitals in the United Kingdom and abroad. The profession looked after him and he, with his study and dedication, managed patients to the best of his ability.