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The story
Why a GP makes YouTube videos
I graduated in 1999, when the internet was hardly a thing.
For most of my career I was a GP partner, teaching medical students at Queen's in Belfast on the side. Somewhere along the way I burnt out, badly enough that I had to stop and rebuild. Sport was part of that rebuild. So was deciding what I actually wanted to do with the years I had left in medicine.
The answer turned out to be skin. I trained in dermoscopy in Australia and at Cardiff, opened my own clinic, and started making videos so that the things I explain across a desk every day could reach more than one person at a time.
That's what this site is. The clinic is where I see patients. Everything else, the videos, the book, the courses, the newsletter, is here.
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