Enrique Zapata became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1987. Until 1976 he had lived in Chile and pursued a career in internal medicine; under Allende he had been the director of the Institute of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Chile in Santiago. Forced to leave Chile, with the help of the World University Service, and subsequently finding he needed to retrain if he was to practise in the UK, he decided to change specialism …