until 1967 in England), he traveled to Canada in 1960 and then came
to the United States. He finished his internship at the Mount Zion
Hospital in San Francisco and Neurology residency at UCLA. He
was a non-conformist and lived a bohemian existence, indulging in
body-building, competitive weight lifting, biking long distances on
his motor cycle, cruising gay bars and briefly but intensely experimenting with hallucinogens and stimulants (LSD, Amphetamine
and other recreational drugs). He admits to leading a double life in
those heady, hormone-filled and exploratory youthful days, doing
his regular residency chores during the week and as a free spirit
hedonist on his off weekends. He described his experiences with
the recreational drugs in his sometimes humorous article “Altered
States—Experiments in Chemistry, August 27, 2012” in The New
Yorker and his 2012 book “Hallucinations.” He befriended a fellow
Englishman, the poet Thomas Gunn while in San Francisco and
his latest book’s title is borrowed from one of Tom Gunn’s poems
entitled “On the Move.”
He later mov