Talk:Dermatology

Shouldn't the "list of diseases" be separate from a page on what dermatology is? --zandperl 19:24, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

All medical specialty pages follow this form, see also rheumatology and pulmonology. JFW | T@lk 09:25, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Fine, but there are about 1500 different diagnoses in dermatology! It would be crazy to list them on a Wikipedia page. I suggest a list of the 10 most common diseases. Does anyone have incidence and/or prevalence data that can be used for this?Emmanuelm 16:20, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

I eliminated the bit about skin cancer clinics in Australia being run by nondermatologists and am trying to clean up the grammer. Philiphughesmd 02:55, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Duplicated content?

The section "diagnosis" is almost identical to the same section under "Malignant melanoma". Shouldn't this content be in one place or the other, but not both? 24.215.235.48 16:48, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I deleted a reference to "Skin Deep" which is someone's personal website.Philiphughesmd 22:40, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Sprotection?

This page suffers from daily mindless vandalism. Would it help to have it {{sprotected}}? JFW | T@lk 19:31, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I have now sprotected it for a limited period of time. Obviously, if the vandalism recurs, I will extend this to progressively longer periods to stop mindless vandals destroying established encyclopedia content.

Is anyone planning some updates to this page? It could do with a lot less weasling and more well-sourced content from professional organisations. JFW | T@lk 21:24, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Useless see also

The rashes and skin conditions actually links to "skin disease" which redirects to the this article's page. An article should probably not be in its own see also —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tossrock (talk • contribs) 06:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

All-American Article

The dermatology article at present describes the situation in the USA: dermatologists there seem to have become specialised surgeons, with minimal training in general medicine, unlike the physicians they are in much of the rest of the world. NRPanikker (talk) 09:28, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you could edit this article to make it better? kilbad (talk) 04:17, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Ouch, that hurts.... Just because dermatologists in the US can do more than a "punch" biopsy, that does not mean that they have "minimal training" in general medicine. What standard are you referring to. 80% if not more of most dermatologist's practice are medicine in nature. Having practiced family medicine for 4 years before dermatology, I can tell you that most of my colleagues are excellent general medicine doctors. --69.14.62.175 (talk) 13:08, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Master regulator?

An interesting press release on EurekAlert: [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/osu-ro032409.php 'Master regulator' of skin formation discovered].

Why no mention of acne?

I noticed that Acne is not mentioned in this article, this subject should be included, or at least listed with acne treating procedures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GUnit594 (talk • contribs) 11:16, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Lack of Criticism / Efficacy Information

Do you think medical articles on WP should include information on to what extent the current practice is "Evidence-Based"? There is no critique in here on the effectiveness of modern dermatological practice and whether or not dermatology is practiced strictly according to sound science.Herbxue (talk) 17:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)