Post by Arjun Dhillon

So I finally got around to writing another post — and promptly hit LinkedIn's character limit! Who knew? That will teach me to use notepad. So I've had a play with the article feature instead. It started as a thought about "online hospitals," and why bolting 2026 technology onto an unchanged model of care worries me. It ended up taking in the founding of UCL and the Middlesex, a rivalry over who got to use the wards, the first statistical test of bloodletting in 1836, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Sir Lancelot Spratt. The short version: we keep taking an eighteenth-century model of care and buying it a video call. The real work is the redesign, not the video call bolted on top. The longer version — with the history, which I rather enjoyed — is in the article below. UCL Skin Analytics