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Click here to download it now! Occurring in about 3 out of every 1000 newborns, Port Wine Stains (PWS) present as pink, red or purple, generally flat and often misshapen discoloration on an otherwise normal skin. Depending on the size and location of the PWS, the most common treatment is laser, and less commonly surgery or radiation. Lasers, if used properly, and with the appropriate wavelength, can give effective…
Dr. Barankin was recently quoted in Hello! Canada in “Winter beauty: 8 skin and hair saviours” discussing how winter weather negatively impacts our skin. Dr. Barankin discusses the many ways we can protect our skin (face & body) from becoming dull, dry, itchy, and irritable. Click here to read the article!
Dr. Barankin recently published an article on inverse psoriasis, click here to view.
Dr. Anatoli Freiman is a dermatologist, and medical director at Toronto Dermatology Centre. Barbara is one of the many patients that had come to Toronto Psoriasis Centre seeking for help and a solution for her psoriasis, which she had been struggling with for many years. Dr. Freiman introduced Barbara to biologic agents after trying topical (cream/ointment) therapy for a long time and it was no longer effective for her. Watch this video and listen to how biologic agents helped Barbara’s skin, health and life.
In the recent Dermatology Times, Dr. Barankin was interviewed and quoted discussing various skin conditions affecting obese patients. Skin tags, stretch marks, acanthosis nigricans, darkening & thickening of elbows and knees, psoriasis and skin infections are discussed among other skin problems more prevalent in this group. Click here to view the full article.
The following is a (partial) list of doctors who were also successful-famous writers:
Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
Oliver Sacks (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars)
Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns)
Vincent Lam (Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures)
Gabor Mate (When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress ; Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder)
Anton Chekhov (The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters
William Carlos Williams (American poet)
Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes (poet)
Sigmund Freud (Austrian psychoanalyst)
W. Somerset Maugham (novelist & short stories ; Of Human Bondage)
John Keats (poet; didn’t fully complete medical training)
Robin Cook (Coma)
Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian novelist – The Master and Margarita)
Sir William Osler (Father of modern medicine ; Canadian born)
Deepak Chopra (writer on spirituality & mind-body medicine)
Viktor Frankl (Austrian neurologist-psychiatrist – Man’s Search for Meaning)
Richard Hooker (MASH)
M. Scott Peck (American psychiatrist – The Road Less Traveled)
Samuel Shem (The House of God)
Benjamin Spock (American pediatrician – Baby and Child Care)
Atul Gawande (The New Yorker medical writer)
