Dr Tony Smith is one of the Deputy Medical Directors for Hato Hone St John in New Zealand. He is also an Intensive Care Medicine Specialist at Auckland City Hospital and is a Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine doctor with the Northern Rescue Helicopter Service. He has had, what he thinks is more than his fair share of exposure to major incidents, including the Christchurch earthquake in 2011, the terrorist mass shootings at mosques in 2019, and the Whakaari White Island eruption in 2019.