|Articles|September 1, 2003

Are Medical Dermatologists an Endangered Species?

A leading dermatologist who helped identify the HIV virus in the early 1980s recently told the American Academy of Dermatology that medical dermatologists may be squeezed out of existence, at least partially, because

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