Bill-Day 2 Dermatology

The 3 of us went to the 7:30 am morning meeting in Taipei. The meeting was about 2 current cases that the doctors could not quite figure out. The residents reported the cases and then it was open for discussion among the attendings and senior doctors. It was cool to see, but it would have been better if it was in English.
After the meeting, we got back on the bus and headed back to Linkou. Today, Jonathan and I sat in on Dr.Chang’s clinic hours and Tammy went to the treatment ward. Jon and I got to see a range of derm cases. Most of the people came in with Tinea Pedis. Due to the heat and humidity, fungal infections are quite common and frequent. We also saw cases of herpes zoster and simplex, and a case of syphilis and had progressed to Secondary Syphilis.
In the afternoon, I went to the treatment ward. The residents there saw patient after patient and did procedures from cryotherpy for warts to skin biopsies.