743 Saving Your Skin

Your skin is the largest organ of your body. A lot can go wrong, but at least you can see it. How can you tell what’s a minor problem and what deserves expert medical attention? One dermatologist offers pictures online to help.
Throughout our lives we are faced with all sorts of skin problems, from diaper rash in infancy to acne as adolescents to skin cancer in our later years. We get advice on which ones are serious enough to require medical attention and which ones we can deal with ourselves.
Guests: Steve Feldman, MD, Professor of Dermatology, Pathology and Public Health Sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. His new book is Compartments: How the Brightest, Best Trained, and Most Caring People can Make Judgments That are Completely and Utterly Wrong. His Web site is www.drscore.com The photo is of Dr. Feldman.
Art Papier, MD, Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Rochester and chief scientific officer of Logical Images. His consumer-oriented Web site is www.SkinSight.com