Glyn Richards MBBS, FRCA, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA

Glyn Richards was a Growing up during the war years, my earliest career aspiration was to be a Spitfire pilot. This being chronologically impossible I became fascinated by the world of medicine. Post Fellowship I worked as sole anaesthetist for several months in Sweden where it came as a bit of a shock that I was expected to do nerve blocks for chronic pain conditions. This however sparked an interest in pain medicine and on my return to New Zealand in 1973, I was delighted to be invited to join Bob Boas in the Pain Clinic he was developing before transfering my interest to pain in the Womens Health Discipline.