"Ah, the human body has always been a fascination of mine. How it works--what makes it suffer and what allows it to thrive. How the organs connect, and what happens when they fail. I've been lucky; even though I was expelled, I currently serve as court physician to the French royal family. I have tended to wounds from the prince's duels and aided noble women in giving birth. It's been an honor and a privilege, truly."

And if occasionally he was given prisoners to test poisons on, perhaps we don't tell the pirate that. He might take it the wrong way.