Can You Please Take a Look at This Rash with Me?

“Can you please take a look at this rash with me?” “Do you have a minute to eyeball a skin lesion?” These are two requests I often get from geriatrics fellows when I’m precepting in their primary care clinic. Sometimes they may be seeking conformation that a painful eruption of fluid-fille d blisters distributed on the skin over a single unilateral dermatome is the rash from herpes zoster. Other times the lesion or rash is more mysterious, and it may require the opinion of a clinician with dermatologic expertise.
Source: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Foreword Source Type: research