HIS house and family are 3,000 miles away back here in East Yorkshire.
When Dr Farqad Alamgir quit his job and moved to Saudi Arabia for work, it wasn't a decision he took lightly.
Tortured over what to do about staff morale and rife bullying at his place of work, he decided his only option was to quit and speak out.
Dr Alamgir formerly worked for Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust – the organisation that runs Castle Hill Hospital, Hull Women and Children's Hospital and Hull Royal Infirmary.
In May, inspectors from the Care Quality Commission published a report into the trust, which stated there was a "culture of bullying".
"There are a lot of people, good people, leaving," said Dr Alamgir.
"It is mostly clinicians – people who don't have an option, just have to put up with it.
"But they dilute it by employing other people who they know won't be what they consider to be 'troublemakers'.
"It's happened many times."
Dr Alamgir was a cardiologist at Castle Hill Hospital before his departure this year.
He took a career break sabbatical beforehand.
"When I returned, I was told I would have to learn to behave," he said.
"I asked what was meant by that, and asked if they could define what the meaning was.
"Anything that was not in line with the trust's targets was considered disloyal.
"If you questioned things, you were behaving badly.
"It isn't considered wrong to talk to people like that when they are 'troublemakers'."
Dr Alamgir says he has many examples of when he supposedly stepped out of line.
"Once there were three nurses looking after 15 patients, but if you raised that as a concern, you were considered disloyal," said Dr Alamgir, who was appointed MBE for services to cardiology last year.
"In 2008, Hull was the first in the UK, and I believe only second in Europe, to perform a heart valve repair without opening the chest.
"Bringing the technology to Hull was not easy, because the Californian company had no idea where we were.
"But we achieved it and the NHS wanted to make us one of eight elite centres for this sort of procedure.
"Everyone, including the clinical commissioning groups, wanted us to do this, but we were told we couldn't do it.
"They killed all that ambition when we should have been encouraging ambition and innovation – people were let down.
"It was very depressing and I couldn't see anything getting better."
Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission visited both the trust's main hospitals in February this year.
Referring to staff morale at the trust, their report said: "Many staff did not feel engaged, particularly with the senior management team.
"Some staff felt pressure to meet performance targets and spoke of a bullying culture in some areas."
This is something the trust seem to have taken very seriously.
From the moment the report was published, cogs were already in motion to change attitudes and behaviours.
But like anything that is deeply embedded and has existed for a long time, changes don't happen overnight.
"All individual incidents of bullying are investigated, but if there is a general culture of bullying, that's another matter," said Professor Ian Philp, chief medical officer, speaking to the Mail after the report was published.
An independent organisation has been commissioned, ACAS, which will help staff who want to talk about bullying, in confidence, and away from hospital grounds.
"The issue of bullying is one that we have accepted and are now actively trying to tackle," said Prof Philp this week.
"We know this problem is not something that can be reversed overnight, but we have taken some significant steps to help us do this.
"This includes appointing an anti-bullying tsar and bringing in ACAS to conduct confidential discussions with our staff."
According to the hospitals, there has been a good response to ACAS's involvement this week, both for focus groups and requests of one-to-one sessions.
The trust are also keen to point out that, discounting consultant retirements, the consultant turnover for last year was at four per cent – low by most hospital standards, they say.
Dr Alamgir agrees that changing the culture of bullying will take some time.
"When it is sorted, and I really do hope it is sorted, I would love to come back to Hull," he said.
"My family is in East Yorkshire and I have a house there.
"Let's hope it gets better."
