After retirement, a visit to a dermatology office
I’ve always been good at pattern recognition and my visual-spatial orientation is excellent. Photography is my hobby, so it was only natural that as a medical student and internal medicine resident, I loved my dermatology electives. Each day yielded up a new parade of interesting skin lesions and rashes, and by the end of my rotations I was confident in my diagnoses and recommendations. Contact dermatitis? Steroids! Eczema? Steroids! Psoriasis? Yep, you got it: steroids again! Pimples? Well that was a diagnosis that required antibiotics. But sometimes, when it was really bad: yes, steroids!
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: Journals (General) Authors: Miranda Fielding, MD Tags: Physician Cancer Dermatology Source Type: blogs
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