flash gordon, m.d.
i'm
a primary care physician living in san francisco.. 
i'm in private practice at 1300 south eliseo drive,
i'm
proud to be the founder of Hearing
Education and Awareness for Rockers (H.E.A.R.) along with Kathy Peck.
i've been on the national board of
directors of Doctors Ought to Care (DOC). they've been working on
banning tobacco advertising for decades, and are a pioneer at using humor to
fight the tobacco companies.
in the
past i was director of the haight
ashbury free medical clinic's medical section,
where i spent a number of years telling folks about safe sex, among other things.
i've also been involved in event
medicine with the haight ashbury
free clinic's rock medicine
section.
in the past, i was active in emergency medicine, serving as director of
the emergency medicine residency program at san francisco
general hospital. i did my
emergency medicine training in downtown detroit, at henry ford hospital.
i've
been writing a medical column in citybike magazine for anumber
of years: my book blood,
sweat, and gears: ramblings on 
motorcycling and medicine, was a
collection of these columns. unfortunately, it's out of print at this time.
i
have a monthly medical column in motorcycle
consumer® news. it’s a
lot of fun to write, and i’m always ope
n
to suggestions for topics to write about in new columns. my e-mail address is at the bottom of this page, my new book blood, sweat and 2nd gear: more medicine for motorcyclists will be published by whitehorse press in august 2007.
it's bigger (and i think, better) than the old book, and has all new
material based in large part on column published in MCN. click here to order.
i've been online since 1980 or so, when i signed up for the source while living in boston. as far as i know, it doesn't exist anymore (the source, not boston).
since 1985, i've been active on the Well. I've hosted the medical conference, as well as the jokes, and men on the well conferences. I founded and hosted the sailing, motorcycling, flying conferences, among others, too. click here to see my .plan file on the well.
i joined the electronic
frontier foundation when it started: in fact, i
recall e-mailing john perry barlow's piece about his visit from agent baxter
that he posted on the Well to my friend john
gilmore when it first came out. john tells me
that it helped him get hooked up with the other EFF founders: i'm proud of that.
i'm married to dr. shauna farr-jones, who used to work at U.C.S.F. (here's a bigger picture of her). since she stopped working with prions, she's swimbikerunning her triathlons, and is a much sought-after biotechnology consultant.
some things of interest:
- here's a live view of
- a picture of the next few day's west coast weather.
- good info on sinuses, sore throat, piriformis spasm, poison oak, neck pain,
carpal tunnel syndrome, constipation, allergies, and phlegm. - in no particular order, some of my favorite quotes.
- a picture of where you are, *right now!*
- an old hotlist of mine (from before there were good searchers). It’s a prime example of "link rot." %^)
- a fast way to get some laughs and a headache at the same time: Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.
- i'll bet you can't read this piece aloud correctly, no matter how good you are: english is tough stuff!
- i was very happy over the years when the late, wonderful Herb Caen used items i sent him. here are some favorites.
