Mistakes to avoid while choosing San Francisco dermatology expert

How many times do you feel that your skin problems haven’t improved even after vising the so-called expert in your locality? How many times do you feel that you have wasted money on a quack who didn’t even diagnose your problem in the first place? In spite of choosing a dermatologist who claimed he was one of the best and most technologically updated in his treatments in your locality, why didn’t your treatment prove fruitful? Though there may be many questions in your mind, there is only answer for all of these – you didn’t do your groundwork properly when choosing a San Francisco dermatology expert. You committed the following mistakes in this process, which proved to be quite costly for you.

Blindly following the claims of the dermatologists

Dermatologists who want to sell their services to you try to attract you with colorful pamphlets and advertisements claiming to have introduced latest technologies in skin treatments. They also offer you these treatments at incredibly low rates to woo more and more patients to their clinic. This mostly happens with cosmetic dermatologists. When you believe these claims blindly and visit these clinics without conducting background checks on these so –called experts, you are in for a rude shock. They use sub-standard equipment and harsh /painful treatments to remove your dark spots or correct your acne issues or any other problem that you may go to them for. The results are disappointing, to say the least. When you notice scarring of your skin and you want to sue a particular clinic, you would be devastated to see that they would have shut shop after looting money from you and similar patients like you!

Not checking credentials and certifications properly

Do you believe in your dermatologist’s words blindly when he tells you that he is a certified member of American Academy of Dermatology and other reputed organizations? If yes, you need to stop doing that right away. When your dermatologists boast of his certifications, ask for a valid proof of the same. Check his license to operate and go to your relevant state’s medical board to check if your doctor is indeed a member of the dermatology center of San Francisco. If your doctor has been lying and produced invalid certificates to you, this is one way of finding the truth.

Too bothered about the charges

One of the most common mistakes that most people commit when choosing their dermatologists is to be too bothered about the treatment costs. How many times have you asked your doctor what would be the total cost of the treatment, even without knowing what kind of treatment he would recommend for you? In a bid to choose affordable treatment, you might end up choosing a dermatologist who is not as experienced or as reputed as you would have liked him to be. When you want your costs to be low, you have to compromise on the quality of your treatment. Given that it has a direct impact on your health do you really want to take this risk?