Dr Gerard Furlong is a graduate of St Bartholomew’s college. He graduated in 1992 with honours and left to start his vocation working as an aneasthetist in several hospitals throughout the United Kingdom.
The function of the anaesthetist is an indispensable element of delivering a good quality of medical care to patients. Ged Furlong whilst being employed as an anaesthetist was in charge of a wide range of duties for the people that he looked after. These incorporated pre-op examination of individuals, consulting with the operative team carrying out the surgery, producing an individual anaesthesia plan for each patient and post-op care and management of patients.
As anaesthetists are perioperative medical doctors it gives them the opportunity to work in a lot of areas of practice within the field of medicine. In the course of his time working for the National Health Service the anaesthetist Gerard Furlong spent time in obstetrics, working in the intensive care unit at Coventry and Warwick hospital as well as a number of years on the Trauma elective ward in Dunganon hospital. Over the course of his career Doctor Furlong came to enjoy his work in the obstetrics ward the most immediately after realizing that he had a wonderful skill for giving epidurals to women at the business end of being pregnant.
Ged Furlong has been a keen scholar all of his life and is an affiliate of a number of societies. He is a frequent contributor of articles and he frequently attends conferences both as a speaker and as a visitor. His specialist knowledge has been utilized in a number of research assignments that include on the HL7 CDA execution guide for SCATA (Society for Computers And Technology in Anaesthesia).
Ged has a number of hobbies he pursues whenever he can find the time. These include sailing, travel and he has taken up golfing an experience that to date he’s found to be quite frustrating.