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Inside Health

Vitiligo, diabetes care, knee implants, masks, social media

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In Inside Health tonight, Dr Mark Porter tackles the confusion and prejudice that surrounds the skin condition Vitiligo - famously said to have been the reason why Michael Jackson skin looked so light.

Max Pemberton discovers why surgeons may be wearing masks for their benefit rather than their patients.

And Margaret McCartney reminds doctors who tweet to proceed with caution - posting photographs of the first patient you've anaesthetised is likely to get you into trouble!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I am Ed Gamble, host of another BBC

0:04.6

podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like

0:09.9

Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylen,

0:15.0

and comedy specials from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Romesh Ranganathan.

0:19.9

However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked.

0:24.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:29.4

This is a download from the BBC. To find out more, visit bBC.com.uk slash radio four.

0:37.1

Hello and welcome to Inside Health in today's program, an inside health exclusive. We reveal new

0:43.0

research showing that many young adults with diabetes are not receiving the care they need,

0:47.7

increasing the chances of major complications like blindness. Max Pemberton looks at why some surgeons

0:53.3

have given up wearing surgical masks.

0:55.9

Margaret McCartney assesses the impact of new media in medicine

0:59.2

and reminds doctors who tweet to proceed with caution.

1:03.2

And we answer a listener's query about the skin condition vitiligo

1:06.0

and the stigma that so often surrounds it.

1:08.8

I have an Asian lady who has vitiligo

1:11.1

and she uses makeup to cover over the patches of skin whitening.

1:16.0

And she's had the vitiligo now for decades, for many, many years.

1:19.8

Her husband has no idea whatsoever that she has vitiligo.

1:24.2

She goes to bed wearing her makeup, she'll repair her makeup in the morning

1:27.0

and she feels embarrassed to reveal to bed wearing her makeup. She'll repair her makeup in the morning.

1:32.9

And she feels embarrassed to reveal her patches to her husband or to her community.

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