Introducing the most common cause of hair loss in young adults… with a silver lining. Hair loss is a challenging issue, not for diagnostic reasons, but because our treatments lack sophistication. The current market offers primitive solutions. For hair loss that is non-scarring, meaning that it does not cause the…

I see this all the time. Patient comes in for a skin exam. Maybe they went to a tanning salon a couple times when they were in college. Maybe they forget their sunscreen and had a couple sun burns that were so bad they eventually formed blisters. Maybe they just…

A patient presents to the clinic with a chief complaint of an inability to sweat. It was a telemedicine visit, so all communication was done via video. We don’t get too many issues with sweating, so I was initially caught a bit off guard and confused. But long story short…

The case of a mole gone rogue. A middle aged lady was referred to us by her primary care doctor for the management of a newly found melanoma. You may be able to surmise from the dermoscopy image below that something funky was going on. I thought this was a…

During a routine skin exam, I noticed an unusual black dot on my patient’s right forearm. He didn’t have many moles, so it was quite striking. “How long has this been there?” “It definitely wasn’t there yesterday morning,” he replied. So I put my dermatoscope (basically a handheld magnifying glass…