Just ten questions? Danny Blyth
What gets you out of bed in the morning?
Coffee and necessity – I’m not a morning person!
What makes you feel alive?
Playing in a band and walking in a forest
One-way ticket to…?
The Buddhist temple restaurant in Chengdu
Desert island disc?
I’ll See You In My Dreams by Cliff Edwards
Desert island book?
The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa
Superpower of choice?
I’m tied between Dr Shen’s pulse skills and Jimmy Noone’s clarinet technique. Can I have both?
Guiltiest pleasure?
Hmm – it used to be smoking but I’ve given up – maybe I’ll start again.
Fantasy dinner party guests?
Sun Simiao, Louis Armstrong, Zhang Sanfeng, Django Reinhardt – should be quite a party
If you weren’t an acupuncturist then what?
More music I think – or maybe beekeeping
What’s your diagnosis?
Depends who you ask – water CF, ADHD, kidney yin xu, chronic FOMO
Favourite thing in your clinic room?
Paintings of Sun Simiao and Zhang Jingyue given to me by my friend Linda Upton and commissioned in China by the late great Giovanni Maciocia
Worst nightmare?
Giving a patient a pneumothorax
Advice for your seven-year-old self?
It’ll be ok
Advice for your seventy-year-old self?
Don’t work too much – and sorry about spending the pension
Favourite proverb?
If you wait by the river long enough you’ll see all of your enemies float by
or…
The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago – the second best time is now
What’s your animal?
A collie
What has life taught you?
Life is good – make sure you enjoy it
And in your next life?
One thing at a time – I need to get this one sorted first
What question do you wish you’d been asked?
This one
