Now, with the VA, I see the Doc and the PA every 6 months; it has been long enough since my melanoma that they say I no longer need a skin check every 3 months. OK by me.
Previously, at the Health First doc, I did occasionally see the MD, but otherwise my main "treater" was his PA. She was very attentive and was otherwise very good at what she did. Her father had been a skin cancer dermatologist and he had trained her well. Out of the many, many, biopsies she did on me only 2 or 3 came back as not cancerous. Better safe, than sorry.

As the MD told me the first time I went to him many years ago: "Dingpatch, Florida surfers need to be very, very, careful with having had so much exposure, and burning from the sun. You MUST be aware of any changes you might see. At even being detected a couple of weeks too late, Melanoma can be a Death Sentence."

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