Dermatologists around the world practice their medicine in two separate domains. One major area is the treatment of disease and the other is the realm of anti-aging and beauty. Each discipline offers medications and procedures. Prices for anti-aging treatments are high despite most of them having questionable value. Prices for drugs treating diseases have skyrocketed. [...]
Everyone is trying to get an edge into the therapy of the RSS suffering patients. The NEA, ITSAN and others are all selling something with the promise of huge success. In addition the websites routinely beg for donations. ITSAN in its recent webpage from March 31, 2016 states they have gotten into a new partnership [...]
Eczema and the National Eczema Association In their June, 2016 newsletter the NEA published results of a patient survey collected in January, 2016 concerning patients’ eczema therapy. There was no indication of how many patients were involved nor how the survey was conducted. But the outstanding negative results must be discussed. Be that as [...]
Topical Steroid Addiction (TSA) & Red Skin Syndrome (RSS) – Medical Errors Medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States. This is due to wrong diagnosis, wrong medications, and wrong medical management, wrong techniques, and preventable infections acquired in hospitals. Treatment mishaps must include topical steroid addiction (TSA) [...]
