itjust made me wonder, is my skin not important? this time last year, i was struck by a one in three mortality rate syndrome called stevens johnson syndrome. it kills one in three people. i had been prescribed a medication called carbamazepine following my wisdom tooth extraction. i now started flaring up with what i can only describe as a horrific reaction. this is what i looked like on day one. the following day, it had got significantly worse. oh, my goodness. and here, just a day after. the marks were spread across your nose, completely under your eyes, more pus is coming from your lips and at this point, you d been to the hospital how many times? twice to a&e. twice, 0k. on what grounds did they ask you to leave? my symptoms didn t look severe enough to them. like that? like that. and they didn t ask you. they didn t even take my medical history. it was almost like i had to fight for my needs and for my pain. as soon as i stepped through those a&e doors, my bodyjust gave up and so
that deaths will keep falling hopefully for a couple of weeks is going to be different story to what will be seeing is a number of cases and infections got going into hospital because those numbers are starting to tick back up again and it s good news and we will celebrate and hopefully will get better in the future, but it doesn t mean the pandemic is over. ryanair is calling on the transport secretary to open up international travel from all eu countries in the next revision of the uk s green list on third june. the airline is urging grant shapps to abolish travel restrictions for everyone who has been fully vaccinated. a department for transport spokesperson said testing post arrival remains an important tool to manage the risk of imported cases of covid 19, as well as allowing the identification of variants of concern. the health secretary, matt hancock, is among the speakers at a global summit in london, which aims to drive vaccine uptake in the fight against the covid. minister
to resuscitate me. it was only when i went to this third hospital where there was a consultant who looks like me and who could identify that this woman, a, is in severe pain but this is not how she looks normally. this is where we say representation matters. i think back and, i don t know, ijust. i feel failed, i feel failed, and i also remember the fact that it s notjust me. there s a history of women who have been turned awayjust because it doesn t look like what they recognise, it doesn t look like what they ve seen before. if their curriculum doesn t account for what certain diseases look like on dark skin, then the fault isn t even with them, the fault lies in the fact that they haven t been told, they haven t been shown. someone definitely taking initiative is malone. hi, malone. how are you? hi, bree. how are you? during his second year of uni, he created the mind the gap handbook
there s a history of women who been turned awayjust because it doesn t look like what they recognise, it doesn t look like what they ve seen before. if their curriculum doesn t account for what certain diseases look like on dark skin, then the fault isn t even with them, the fault lies in the fact that they haven t been told, they haven t been shown. someone definitely taking initiative is malone. hi, malone. how are you? hi, bree. how are you? during his second year of uni, he created the mind the gap handbook and it s the first of its kind. it shows a variety of conditions on non white skin. it s now being used by the northeast ambulance service, the london ambulance service. it s being used in some gp practices, it s starting to reshape the way medical education is being taught. the work that we ve produced is able to help them potentially even maybe to prolong people s lives. the british association of dermatologists was petitioned by over 5000 people in 2020 asking for an increase