Abstract
I entered dermatology by default, having previously flirted with cardiology (too competitive), psychiatry (I lacked the patience) and paediatrics (interviewing committee members didn’t appreciate my finer qualities). My dermatology career began inauspiciously in 1962, when, as a medical registrar, I presented a patient with temporal arteritis to the section of dermatology of the Royal Society of Medicine. I don’t think my presentation was very good, since unlike most of the other physicians, I read from a script. But I was impressed by some of the discussants who had a substantial knowledge of internal medicine as well as the skin, and of their ability to integrate the two, so I made dermatology my career. That it spanned a period encompassing dramatic advances in biomedical sciences applied to skin diseases, with increasing understanding of their pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment, has been my good fortune.
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