My part-time day job is as a remote GP/Emergency doctor. I've been advocating loudly since March 2020 for improved airborne protections against COVID-19 for healthcare workers. You may have seen me on Twitter as @YouAreLobbyLud, where I'm not that polite when I think my friends are being put in needless danger.
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I even started another Twitter account, @CO2Guerrillas, to enable people to publicise poor air quality readings. As a result, I was contacted by SAF Tehnika in Latvia, the manufacturers of the Aranet4, who wanted to know if I could distribute the product in Australasia.
I won’t say, like Victor Kiam, that “I liked the shaver so much I bought the company”, but not far off! This is a fantastic product and I want to see it used far and wide in Australia, New Zealand and beyond, so we can all ensure we are breathing our very best air, not just to protect us from COVID-19, but from other infections and harmful particles which can cause asthma or physical lung damage.
I have founded and run a number of other medical and non-medical companies previously. From 2009-2018 I was a Non-Executive Director of the BMJ Group Ltd in London, the global medical publishing company which publishes the BMJ, many other well known medical journals and BMJ Best Practice, a point of care medical decision aid used throughout Australasian hospitals.