How gross is derm?

[CornellMANheh]

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How gross is dermatology from day to day? Is it super icky or are most cases pretty tame?

As a comparison, is it as gross as Dr. Sandra Lee’s pimple popping videos on YouTube, or are scenarios like those relatively rare?

 

[asmallchild]

How gross is dermatology from day to day? Is it super icky or are most cases pretty tame?

As a comparison, is it as gross as Dr. Sandra Lee’s pimple popping videos on YouTube, or are scenarios like those relatively rare?

This won't lead to anything good so I'm locking the thread.

This is a forum for residents/physicians but we also welcome medical students interested in dermatology.

It appears you are pre-med so you've got a while to go before hitting your clinical rotations. Once you get to that stage, I highly encourage (as I would for all med students) a Derm rotation or at least shadowing a dermatologist for a day to get an idea of what life is like as a dermatologist.

Like everything else in medicine, there are some things people consider "icky" and some things people consider "tame".

Dr Lee's videos/TV show are demonstrating the more extreme cases we encounter.