A Case of a Micronesian Woman in Hawai'i with Lymphoma and the Role of Implicit Bias in Medicine Affecting Her Care.

Medically indigent patients, patients of color, those with insufficient health insurance, or patients with severe diseases have a high rate of poor health care quality caused by unconscious implicit and explicit biases. Awareness of the relationship between unconscious implicit bias and negative health care outcomes is increasing in the health care community. The objective of this case study was to examine implicit biases that negatively affected the patient care of a young Micronesian woman with a severe cutaneous disease in Hawai'i.

Conflicts of Interest in "Throwaway" Dermatology Publications: Analysis of the Open Payments Database.

Background: Dermatology journals, periodicals, editorials, and news magazines are influential resources that are not uniformly regulated and subject to influence from the pharmaceutical industry. This study evaluates industry payments to physician editorial board members of common dermatology publications, including "throwaway" publications.

Objective: The aim of this study was to characterize the extent and nature of industry payments to editorial board members of different dermatologic publications in order to ascertain differences in payments between different types of publications.

Conflicts of interest among dermatology textbook authors.

Background: Conflict of interest as it relates to medical education is a burgeoning topic of concern. Dermatology textbooks are an influential resource for dermatologists. This study evaluates industry payments to authors of major dermatology textbooks.

Digging for the Deeper Diagnoses in Dermatology.

In a small private dermatology practice, I became aware that knowledge of some patients' adverse childhood experiences, traumatic experiences, and social determinants of health was essential to establish a successful therapeutic relationship. I discuss how these factors play important and lifelong roles in the disorders that dermatologists see, but these factors have not been addressed in the dermatology literature.