Study: Dermatologist appointments for Botox much faster than for potentially cancerous moles
Women fearing that they have a cancerous mole will have to wait approximately three times as long than if they were interested in removing wrinkles from their foreheads. This according to a story in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and reported in the New York Times.
“The difference in wait times between medical dermatology and cosmetic dermatology patients is clearly real,” said Dr. Jack S. Resneck Jr., the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of dermatology at the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco. “We need to look further and figure out what is leading to shorter wait times for cosmetic patients.”
In Boston, the median Botox wait was 13 days, versus 68 days for a mole examination. In Seattle, the median Botox wait was seven and a half days, compared with 35 days for a changing mole.
The article ended with a half-assed response from dermatologist apologists saying in so many words “blah, blah, blah.”
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