Skin Exam

There are a lot of barriers to doing a good skin exam, especially in the hospital. We rarely undress patients to inspect their entire body, we assess people in the emergency department in gurneys in the hallways, we assume patients will tell us if they notice weird rashes. But they don't and the skin exam is crucial (even if all rashes are "maculopapular"), especially for certain chief complaints. This is simply a reminder to myself not to forgo the skin exam because it seems inconvenient, hard, or unimportant.