Flash Gordon (physician)

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Flash Gordon (physician)
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NationalityU.S. Citizen
Occupation(s)M.D., activist, humorist and author
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Flash Gordon is a practicing primary care physician in Greenbrae, California, [1] who has been described as the premier physician and medical spokesperson for the motorcyclist community in the US. [2] He has written two books on motorcycling medicine: Blood, Sweat & Gears (1995) and Blood, Sweat & 2nd Gear (2008), [3] and was a contributing columnist for Motorcycle Consumer News magazine, as well as San Francisco's monthly CityBike .

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Education

Gordon was awarded a physics honors scholarship at the University of Miami before going on to study medicine. [1]

Career

Flash Gordon was director of the medical section of Haight Ashbury Free Clinics in the late 1980s. [4] [5] He directed the emergency medicine residency at San Francisco General Hospital from 1978 until 1980. He currently is a primary care physician seeing patients in Greenbrae, California.

H.E.A.R.

Gordon is a founder of H.E.A.R., a group devoted to protecting musicians' hearing. [6] [7]

Interests

As a member of the national board of directors of Doctors Ought to Care (DOC), which is a nationwide organization of physicians and medical students who work with young people to promote healthy lifestyles. [8] Through DOC Gordon used humour to promote a ban on tobacco advertising. [9]

Gordon has commuted on motorcycles since 1961 and rides from San Francisco to Greenbrae, California almost daily. A regular medical columnist in San Francisco's CityBike magazine, Gordon published a collection of his articles as Blood, Sweat, and Gears: Ramblings on Motorcycling and Medicine, a first aid book for motorcyclists, in 1995. [1] His second book, Blood, Sweat & 2nd Gear: More Medicine for Motorcyclists is a collection of his columns from Motorcycle Consumer News and was published in 2008.

Published work

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