What I lack in compassion for the sick, respect for human dignity and any sort of verifiable formal training in medicine, I more than make up for with a bottomless supply of giant needles and a trembling enthusiasm for plunging them into exposed flesh. Raised in Stuttgart, Germany during an era when the Hippocratic Oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic Suggestion, I consider healing a generally unintended side effect of satisfying my own morbid curiosity.