My wife's doctor is kind of a hack, I've complained before but here's a new one:
She had my oldest son in today, and we've recently noticed some type of dark discoloration on the skin on his neck -- almost like it looks dirty, but it's not. No pain, no itch -- it doesn't look too severe but still kind of strange. She asked the doctor about it and basically got no info, suggested a steroid cream (it's always that or an inhaler with this guy, he's diagnosed all my kids with asthma a bunch of times when they just had colds).
So we went to Dr. Google and found that's actually a symptom of insulin resistance, and in more severe cases could lead to type 2 diabetes. The pictures look almost exactly the same (though the pictures are much more severe cases of course). Gee, would've been nice to learn that from a DOCTOR.
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