Dermatology Has a Problem With Skin Color

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By BY RONI CARYN RABIN from NYT Health https://ift.tt/34N0XVC
via IFTTT your-feed-science, Skin, Black People, Doctors, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Skin Cancer, Race and Ethnicity, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Minorities, Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS), Textbooks, Hispanic-Americans, Medical Schools, Eczema, Psoriasis, Medicaid Common conditions often manifest differently on dark skin. Yet physicians are trained mostly to diagnose them on white skin.

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