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There's also a false belief, common among doctors and other medical professionals, that darker skin is thicker/tougher. (to be 100% clear, it only differs from
by dhosek 6y ago
There's also a false belief, common among doctors and other medical professionals, that darker skin is thicker/tougher. (to be 100% clear, it only differs from lighter skin in pigment and no other characteristics).
- leet_coder_boi 6y agoI can't believe there are people that don't understand: the science gods have shown us the conclusive research! The only genomic difference between ethnicities is melanin!
- rexer 6y agoYour comment and the one you replied to don't make sense to me. How can skin only differ in pigment, but it also require additional training to care for skin of different color?
- manicdee 6y agoBecause it is a different colour, meaning that all the training you received learning focussed on different shades of pink no longer applies. Darker skin means the symptoms you are looking for are lower contrast and a different colour. It’s a simple case of repeating all that training against different skin colours. It’s often difficult for someone trained exclusively with pale skin to recognise something as obvious as sunburn on darker skin, for example.
- xnx 6y agoI'm guessing that identification of different skin conditions on skin of much higher pigmentation that what a dermatologist has been trained on is an obstacle.