I love challenging dermatology cases, and I still spend some of my time working on those for the NHS at King’s College Hospital – it’s super medical. You can catch someone’s liver disease or liver failure by examining skin, hair and nails, because some conditions can indicate liver problems, for example.
That really is where I utilise all my years of training. After medical school, consultant dermatologists spend another 15 years studying medicine, skin science and disease before becoming a substantive consultant dermatologist. You have to make some self-sacrifices over those years, but I really believe it sets you up and moulds you as a person and a practitioner.
I run the paediatric dermatology clinic, general dermatology and surgery lists at King’s three days a week. I also run my skin cancer screening clinic with my registrars and juniors. I got my consultant job in early 2020, and…
