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That matches my experience. If you see a doctor, they'll try doing whatever their flowchart says to do, and if it doesn't work, they tell you to go away. You'd get results at least as good from just looking at the flowchart yourself.

I did see a dermatologist when the skin on one of my fingertips started peeling uncontrollably. He told me 'We call this "desquamation", which just means "it's peeling". We don't know why it happens or what might make it stop.'

It was a less than ringing endorsement of the idea that if you have a skin problem, you should see a dermatologist.




Couldn’t you go to a medical library and look up ‘desquamation’?


Yes, and it will say "we don't know why it happens or what might make it stop".


You’ve already done so? Can you point to which texts say that?




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