Flash Gordon (physician)

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.

Flash Gordon (physician)
Born
New York, NY
NationalityU.S. Citizen
Occupation(s)M.D., activist, humorist and author
Partnernone
Childrennone

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
  • Blood, Sweat & Gears: Ramblings on Motorcycling and Medicine (1995) ISBN 1-884313-03-5
  • Blood, Sweat & 2nd Gear: More Medicine for Motorcyclists January 1, 2008 ISBN 1-884313-63-9

References
  1. "Inkwell: Authors and Artists". The Well. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  2. Blood, Sweat & 2nd Gear - wBW Book Review, WebBikeWorld, retrieved 2010-02-26
  3. flash gordon, m.d. The Sound RIDER! Interview, Sound Rider, Fall 2007, archived from the original on 2009-12-26, retrieved 2010-02-23
  4. Flash Gordon M.D., Personal web page, retrieved 2010-02-23
  5. Shawn Bates (October 22, 1988), Doc of Rock, Image magazine, archived from the original on November 18, 2008, retrieved 2010-02-23
  6. H.E.A.R. story, H.E.A.R., retrieved 2010-02-23
  7. Ayanna V. Buckner (April 14, 2005), "Hearing Loss: A Preventable Problem", ABC News, retrieved 2010-02-24
  8. "Doctors Ought to Care (DOC)". University of Wisconsin. Archived from the original on 28 October 2010. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
  9. "Doctors Ought to Care". Retrieved 3 November 2010.
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