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Outside of skin of color clinics, the satisfaction of care by black patients would improve if dermatologists underwent residency training in skin of color, cultural competency and emphatic communication skills and if there were greater dermatology workforce diversity, according to researchers in JAMA Dermatology.

One-third of contact lens wearers surveyed recalled never hearing lens care recommendations from their eye care providers although most doctors reported sharing them always or most of the time.