Tales of a Flying Doctor

A medical memoir combined with travel by a leading professor who has made life-changing, groundbreaking medical discoveries during his career. 

From Liverpool to America, London to Jamaica, the heroic in-flight rescue of a pilot with cardiac arrest, Professor Graham Hughes is notable for wanting to be home, almost as soon as he arrives, wherever it is.

Professor Hughes is often known as ‘The Father of Lupus’ in the United Kingdom. As well as his clinical and laboratory work in lupus, he taught generations of trainee doctors both at home and abroad. He was co-founder of the national charity Lupus UK, and the editor of the international journal ‘Lupus’. Most famously, he reported a new syndrome 'Hughes syndrome' – a blood clotting disorder, now recognised as the most common, treatable cause of recurrent miscarriage.