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Today, 14 October 2008

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Dorothy: I have been told by a GP and a dermatologist I have psoriasis.
Prof Harry: Scaling of the skin. You go to bed at night and when you wake up your bed is full of scales.
Dorothy: And as I walk, so it drops off. I'm losing virtually all my hair. No one seems to help me here in the Cape. They say there is no cure.
Prof Harry: There is no cure, they're perfectly right, because we don't know the cause. All we know is that it is genetic in some people.
Dorothy: I cannot get anybody to explain this to me in detail and I'd like to find a book. I still say it was a spider bite because I was in the garden and I felt something on my leg and I had a red row of marks on my leg.
Prof Harry: I don't think it has anything to do with spiders because the condition you're speaking about is a chronic condition. You've had it for a long time.
Dorothy: No, it only started in May.
Prof Harry: You've had it for three or four months. You've got to go back to this dermatologist and tell him exactly what you're telling me.
Dorothy: No, I won’t go back to him again.
Prof Harry: If you feel you cannot go back to him, and I don’t blame you…
Dorothy: He gave me cream that burnt my whole body.
Prof Harry: No that's not the point. The cream here and the cream there is not the point. You must go to another dermatologist at Groote Schuur.
Dorothy: I've seen two and I saw another five.
Prof Harry: You've seen five dermatologists and nobody's speaking to you! Then what you're telling me is utterly disgraceful and then tomorrow morning, you're going to make an appointment with the superintendent of Groote Schuur Hospital and you're going to tell him what you've told me and then he must take action.