The American Academy of Dermatology has a good patient information handout on Scabies. It's very well done, and provides useful into.
I'd like to give it to patients .. and I sometimes do .. but I usually hesitate - or read them sections I don't agree with. Like the treatment: "See a dermatologist as soon as possible to begin treatment."
Huh? Why would it be necessary to see a dermatologist to treat scabies? Primary care physicians see and treat scabies every day.
Alas -- the line between marketing and medicine blurs once again. Sure .. the American Academy of Dermatology is gonna suggest that people see a dermatologist. No surprise there, I suppose .. but is it good medicine? In fact, I think that it's WORSE medicine than seeing the primary care physician. We treat the whole family ... and scabies is one that can certainly get the whole family.
So the advice of a specialty organization suggests that patietns do something that is better for their business but worse for patient care. How hard would it have been to say "see your physician" instead?