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Originally Posted by Skip
I agree. We have friends that get cut up every 4 months by their dermatologist . They freeze or cut something each and every time they go. This is not right. There are too many knife-happy doctors out there and they know the insurance company will pay for each "find". Be careful of "thorough doctors".
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I'm not sure what you're agreeing with. I never said my doctor is knife-happy. I suggested that it's hard to know if he is or not. If I really DO need to have these surgeries, then I'm glad he's pro-active in making sure I get them. He's tried to get me to have a few on "mild" non-cancerous things that - if left alone, COULD become cancer after they first go through "moderate" and "severe" stages. But he has also been reasonable in letting me make the decision to wait on anything that's "mild" or "moderate" and take a wait and see attitude toward those.
In the past four years I've had two melanomas, one carcinoma, and two "severe" dysplastic nevum diagnosed. So I'm grateful that he found them. I just don't agree that the mild/moderate non-cancerous discolorations need to be removed or treated, unless they're in a location where it'd be really inconvenient or potentially dangerous to have a -bigger- one removed a year later if it grows to become "severe". Like - something on the bridge of my nose where my glasses rest. Or under my armpit. Or next to my eye.