Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: December 26, 2017
Dr. Rockoff finds that getting the recommended vaccines for a trip to Morocco is not so simple.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: November 18, 2017
Innovation in medical school education has a way of coming full circle.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: October 22, 2017
Are “man caves” and whiskey bars becoming the new normal in the field of dermatology?
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: September 22, 2017
Skin is interesting, but the people inside it are often even more so.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: August 23, 2017
Dr. Rockoff recounts his experience with his first inpatient consult in decades.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: July 11, 2017
Try listening – really listening carefully.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: June 23, 2017
An article in the New Yorker prompts some thoughts on the utility of patient diaries and more.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: May 25, 2017
My grandson is almost 3. He is, of course, very advanced in many areas, including self-awareness.At the moment he is suffering from Fifth Disease. ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: April 18, 2017
Dr. Rockoff recounts an experience with a dissatisfied patient.
News
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: March 15, 2017
North, South, West. I’ve been all over, without leaving the chair facing my computer screen.
Opinion
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: February 23, 2017
Dr. Rockoff describes what happens when the patient is the one with the electronic device.
Article
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: January 25, 2017
“The other doctor I went to told me that the spot he biopsied on my nose was a skin cancer,” Larry said. “But he told me just to keep an eye on it....
Article
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: December 22, 2016
A man walks into a doctor’s office, snapping his fingers.“Why are you snapping your fingers?” asks the doctor.“To keep the elephants away,” says th...
Article
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: November 23, 2016
Oren is 11. I often see him around the neighborhood. The other day I gave his father a lift. “Oren had a rash on his face,” said Ben, s...
Article
- Author:
- Alan Rockoff, MD
Publish date: October 22, 2016
The following was presented to the Pennsylvania Academy of Dermatology at its annual meeting in Bedford Springs, Pa. The verses were sung to ...
