Music-loving critical care consultant Tom Owen gives it strum to put a smile on the face of an Oasis fan.
And Liam Sutcliffe is just one of dozens of seriously ill patients the 50-year-old has proved the perfect tonic for since he decided to start taking his guitar to work three years ago.
Tom, an anaesthetist from Kendall, Cumbria, said: “I get a smile out of them, I like to think it’s all part of the rehabilitation process. If I could give up medicine and go round the country playing for patients, I would do it at the drop of a hat.