| chevill says >"1. The type that's too incompetent to diagnose anything more complicated than a cold or a broken bone. Usually they are general practitioners, sometimes they are specialists."< Dermatologists! Dermatologists! My wife and I have gone to our healthcare providers' dermatologists about 6 time in total: each time they've sent us home with a diagnosis of "allergic reaction" and a prescription for a tub of cortisone (which we have, at this point, ceased to fill): https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0996/0350/products/triamci... The cortisone never works, but I have two tubs of cortisone cream in the refrigerator in case of nuclear war. This is a shame. We once had a private dermatologist who was simply outstanding - he nailed every problem with his diagnoses. But he retired. It seems the colleagues he left behind are all candidates for the
Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B. My wife recently was given another "allergic reaction" diagnosis for a skin irritation and got another cortisone tub prescription. I looked at her skin and then, on a hunch, sat at her computer terminal awhile. Sure enough in a few minutes I felt stings on my neck and right arm. An examination with a magnifying glass revealed very tiny fire ants on my arm. I searched above her chair and found the source - a Chinese lantern was the ants' launch platform - they were falling onto her and then stinging her. How a trained dermatologist cannot distinguish ant bites from an "allergic reaction" is beyond me. The ant bites have a red center and form blisters, which is nothing like a generalized allergic reaction. A little bug spray and some ant baits took care of the ants. I don't know how to fix the dermatologists. |
