Gladiatorum Rashes

Dermatology, everyone's favorite lectues. They are filled with pictures of gentilia loaded with ulcerative lesions, seeping wounds, and outright bleeding. On the other end of the spectrum are pictures of every type of mole and pimple known to man. The plethora of diseases the human body can harbor is mind numbing. The purpose of these lectures of morbidity and mortality is simply this: exposure. It has been brought to my attention that no resident or attending physician expects you to remember the plethora of diseases and conditions that can result in the human body. Comforting. I'm paying $44,000 a year to listen to lectures that I'm not really expected to know. Why would someone want to become a dermatologist? They have one of the most competitive residencies. Why? Why would you want to look at skin all day? Good hours and good pay. Those are pretty much all the reasons I can come up with. It's surprising the amount of gore that you are exposed to in medical school, and you take it all in stride. You start to look for the gorey pictures. No one thinks of the people that have these diseases we are observing. These people's disease is no longer self-limited or treatable. It now can last forever. Their disease is now cemented in time through their pictures. No wonder why some cultures fear that pictures will steal their souls. It will.