Paul Trotman

The case of the Elephant Man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly deformed man? How did he keep his sanity as the disease ravaged his body?

In Dunedin Hospital, staff are working to improve end of life treatment in patients with COPD and other chronic conditions. Professor Robin Taylor wants to change the way that we care for people with long-term, but inevitably fatal medical conditions as they reach the end of their lives. Instead of writing another academic paper, he decided to take a completely different tack and commission a film about the issues.