Medicine
When you grow up watching far too much Grey’s Anatomy, studying to become a doctor doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. Today, medicine isn’t just my career path — it has become my monomaniacal obsession.
The story behind the journal
About The Roving Doctor
Welcome to my blog, you crazy, beautiful people!
I’m Marius Brown, a Maltese emergency doctor, divemaster and chronic collector of stories. When I’m not working in the emergency department, I’m usually travelling somewhere remote, disappearing beneath the sea, climbing the occasional mountain or writing about the people and places I encounter along the way.
The Roving Doctor grew from the two obsessions that have shaped my life: medicine and the world beyond it. Here, I share honest stories from hospital corridors and distant horizons, including the triumphs, disasters, dark humour and occasional existential crisis that come with trying to build a meaningful life between both.
I’m still working towards becoming an extraordinary doctor and an infamous pirate. Until then, you'll find me drinking far too much coffee, making questionable transport choices and following the next story wherever it leads.
Two worlds, one story
My obsessions
The two forces that keep pulling me forward — one through hospital corridors, the other towards the edge of the map.
Travel
Growing up on One Piece, I dreamed of sailing the seven seas and stumbling into uncharted territory. Lacking a pirate ship, I’ve settled for buses, tuk-tuks, ferries and whatever else gets me closer to the edge of the map.
One home
Malta
It took me leaving Malta for a year to finally understand just how much this tiny country has to offer. Coming home made me see it differently: the sea, the history, the hidden corners and the sheer amount packed into a few small islands. For all its quirks, Malta really is the gem of the Mediterranean.
The person behind the pages
Quick facts and questionable decisions.
A brief inventory of the places, experiences and obsessions that have shaped The Roving Doctor so far.
01
ProfessionEmergency Physician
02
Most Underrated CountryGuatemala
03
Home BaseMalta
04
Favourite TrekCiudad Perdida, Colombia
05
Favourite CountryArgentina
06
Favourite DiveMelissa’s Garden, Raja Ampat
07
Favourite RegionPatagonia & Caribbean
08
Favourite WonderPetra, Jordan
09
Worst Travel Decision7 Waterfalls Trail, El Salvador
10
Best Travel DecisionOpen Water Course, Belize
35+Countries explored
200+Dives logged
10+Multi-day treks
CountlessStories collected
Inside the journal
Stories worth remembering.
Not a guide to having life figured out — just an honest collection of the stories, questions and detours that make it interesting.
Stories worth remembering
- Sharing sweet tea and stories with strangers in the Jordanian desert.
- Cracking the impossible medical puzzles when every second counts in the ER.
- Trying to sleep to the soundtrack of an actively erupting volcano in Guatemala.
- Offering a lifeline on someone’s darkest, most terrifying day while running around the hospital.
Stories worth reading
- Clinical reflections from real-world practice in hospitals and around the world.
- Travel narratives with humour, facts and the occasional existential crisis.
- Observations on science, history, art, culture and people.
- Stories that sit somewhere between the corridors of a hospital and the open world.
Upcoming adventures
- Kyrgyzstan
- Greece
- Portugal
- Sri Lanka
If you’re looking for tidy answers, you might find this place a bit unconventional.
But if you’re here to explore the questions, the detours and everything in between, then you’re exactly where you belong.
We’ll get along just fine.