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What do you do when you have a mole that grew substantially but the earliest appointment they have is 3+ months from now?
From what I can tell, non-dermatologists know absolutely nothing about melanoma diagnosis. I'm not a dermatology student but I'm confident I'm better at diagnosing melanoma than non-dermatology field doctors. Case in point, I was on r/askdocs a while back (on reddit), and a girl posted a picture of an OBVIOUS seborrheic keratosis. A doctor replied telling her to get it checked out, and when I replied, "isn't this seborrheic keratosis?," he responded by saying that it's "not worth the risk."
She went to a dermatologist who told her it was a seborrheic keratosis.
If they can't even recognize an obvious seborrheic keratosis, when even I can do that, what good are they for melanoma diagnosis?
And I get extremely irritated by the idea that X number of months won't make any difference. At some point, in one moment, a cancer goes from one stage to the next, assuming it's not already stage 4 (and even then, that still progresses in terms of involvement and affects the chance for remission). There's a straw that breaks a camel's back.
From what I can tell, non-dermatologists know absolutely nothing about melanoma diagnosis. I'm not a dermatology student but I'm confident I'm better at diagnosing melanoma than non-dermatology field doctors. Case in point, I was on r/askdocs a while back (on reddit), and a girl posted a picture of an OBVIOUS seborrheic keratosis. A doctor replied telling her to get it checked out, and when I replied, "isn't this seborrheic keratosis?," he responded by saying that it's "not worth the risk."
She went to a dermatologist who told her it was a seborrheic keratosis.
If they can't even recognize an obvious seborrheic keratosis, when even I can do that, what good are they for melanoma diagnosis?
And I get extremely irritated by the idea that X number of months won't make any difference. At some point, in one moment, a cancer goes from one stage to the next, assuming it's not already stage 4 (and even then, that still progresses in terms of involvement and affects the chance for remission). There's a straw that breaks a camel's back.