Why Isn't There More Black Skin in Dermatology Books?

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Even in 2021, textbooks lack images of conditions on dark skin, which means all dermatologists are missing out on education unless they seek to learn more about brown skin. Three dermatologists and two derms-in-training share their experiences.

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of U.S. dermatologists consider themselves to be a part of that group, according to a 2016 report published in the. The result: A wide swath of the population isn't always getting the proper care for skin, hair, and nail conditions.

And even to this day, there's inappropriate treatment of skin of color. Then Black people get the sense that, well, they don't really know my hair, they don't really know my skin. And they're like, "Well, a dermatologist isn't really for [me]." And I think that's also a reason why so many concoctions and myths are so widely present.

I mean, we don't know. They didn't study us. So we would have to do our own clinical trial just by giving a patient a prescription and seeing how they would do, and be ready on the phone in case they needed us because it just burnt their whole face up. We had to find ways to take those medications and use them safely on brown skin.

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