Callum Devereux’s previous regimen took forty minutes a day. His current one takes eight, is less theoretically optimal, and he actually does it.
Under-treatment driven by fear of a treatment is more common in this clinic than over-treatment, and the fear is usually acquired from well-meaning advice.
Fingertip units
Photograph-based triage moved most urgent lesion referrals to an answer within a fortnight, and moved the queue for benign findings out of the way entirely.
Adherence to topical treatment is low everywhere. That’s a design problem, not a character problem.
Dr. Ilse Marchand, dermatology
Beyond the rash
Adherence to topical treatment is low almost everywhere and is a design problem rather than a character one: the regimens are long, greasy and unpleasant.
“The best plan is the one you do in November,” he says, “not the one you agree to in the clinic.”
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