Summer is nearly over, so now is a little late to give sunscreen advice, but there is still time to smear sunblock on your nose. This article was originally posted in 2013 and then in 2019, but it is still relevant.
Dermatology is the most sought after medical specialty residency in all of medicine. It is the only field in medicine where a doctor can ask a woman to remove all her clothes, perform a thorough examination, and then send the bill to her husband. —and that is a Borscht Belt joke. (rim shot please.)
This graphic is by Tim Robinson, of the NY Times
By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Dean of the Blogfinger Off-shore School of Medicine in Ocean Grove, NJ. author of the famous medical article: “The Parking Derangement Syndrome.”
In my late teens I worked summers at a resort hotel in the Catskill Mountains. My job was to run around all day in shorts as a member of the athletic staff, organize volleyball and softball games, be sociable with the new guests (Wowee!) and suffer sun exposure as a side effect. My nose was always peeling, so I would put thick shmeers of white zinc oxide on, and the guests called me “Chief White Nose.”
Anyhow, we didn’t know anything about the sun risks, and I don’t think they had invented sunscreens back then. They barely had just invented the wheel. I think they may have had Coppertone—the emphasis was on getting a…
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