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Derms score well in physician-lifestyle report

Dermatologists report high job satisfaction and are among the most likely of all specialties to take dietary supplements, a recent report suggests.

Medscape published its Lifestyle Report 2014, a collection of statistics gleaned from sources such as Gallup, Pew Research and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Lifestyle Report compares and ranks physicians by specialty according to their responses to lifestyle questions.

In the latest CDC report on obesity, for example, about 35 percent of Americans are obese (defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more). Of the physician categories, the dermatologist percentage was lowest on the list:…

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 The Tricky Business of Being a TikTok Derm

The three most followed physicians in the history of social media are People’s Sexiest Doctor Alive and two board-certified dermatologists. One of them is less than two years out of residency. Muneeb Shah, DO, is young, jocular, and has optic white teeth. He once told an interviewer he aspires to become “the Ryan Seacrest of dermatology.” With an audience of nearly 20 million, his TikTok following outnumbers Seacrest’s by more than 100 to 1. The other dermatologist is a name you’ve probably heard before: Sandra Lee, MD, aka Dr. Pimple Popper, has 16.8 million TikTok followers, another 8 million on YouTube, and close to 5 million on Instagram. Skin is in her blood.

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Meet the Dermatologists Changing Their Field

Many skin conditions, from rashes to Lyme disease to various cancers, manifest differently on dark skin. Yet medical literature and textbooks have historically underrepresented pictures of skin of color, leaving critical diagnostic information off the page. "Historically, Black skin, brown skin is not represented in our literature appropriately," said Dr. Ginette Okoye, Chair of Dermatology at Howard University School of Medicine. In dermatology, skin of color has not been represented in a field that purports to care for the skin of all. Today on the show, reporter Emily Kwong and host Maddie Sofia take a close look at dermatology — how the science of skincare has evolved to better serve patients of color, but still has a long way to go.

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