Dr. Forrester

82. Are you spontaneous, or do you always need to have a plan?
I like to have a plan, but when you are dealing with a medical emergency, you have to think on your feet. In everyday life, I am certainly more inclined to foreward think than to act on instinct.

1. What is your full name?
Darcy Josiah Forrester, MD and yes, I was named for Mr. Darcy. My mother has a Jane Austen fixation.

12. What words and/or phrases do you use very frequently?
bloody (as an Englishman should), phlebotomy (my favourite medical term), 'I'm fine' (to my wife, usually)

70. What is/are your favorite hobbies and pastimes?
Reading, seeing my wife for many hours at a time, sleeping for many hours at a time, playing the piano

77. How do you spend a typical Saturday night?
Good week: reading, spending time with my wife, playing the piano and sleeping. Bad week: up for many hours with a patient and eating standing up at the nurses station.

86. What is your greatest weakness?
My wife's chai.

35. When was the time you were the most frightened?
When many patients arrived with mysterious symptoms I couldn't put together and proceeded to die without any apparent cause, whereupon a man proclaiming to be a wizard arrived and informed me that they were being affected by black magic and there was nothing I could do to help them.

92. What are your reasons for being a doctor? (Note: question says 'adventurer', but Forrester isn't, so I've changed it to his profession)
I should say something inspiring about how I just want to help people or such nonsense, but, truthfully, I like to solve puzzles. Diagnostics was not my first choice of specialty, but ended up being more suited to my personality than surgery would have been. I do enjoy making people well, however. It strokes my ego.