Amy McMichael, MD - Dermatology - Wake Forest Baptist Health

Dr. Amy McMichael is a dermatologist at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Learn more about Dr. McMichael: www.wakehealth.edu/Faculty/McM...
Dermatology at Wake Forest Baptist: www.wakehealth.edu/Dermatology/
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TRANSCRIPT: My name is Amy McMichael and I'm professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology.
My clinical specialty here in the Department of Dermatology is skin of color and hair disorders.
I'm a general dermatologist and one of our faculty members likes to joke that we're kind of "country doctors"- that means we see everything, head-to-toe.
But when I really get down to what I love to do, it really is dealing with pigmentary issues, patients with skin of color, who have concerns about their skin disease and how we approach it maybe a little differently than we would in someone who didn't have as much pigment in their skin, and hair loss and overgrowth of hair. Those things are really what I'm passionate about- what I do clinical research in- and how I really see myself making a mark in our specialty of Dermatology.
I think my patient care philosophy is really to educate, to care, and to really allow that patient to understand what all their options are.
I would love to cure every disease in every patient that I see. I know that that's not going to be possible. So while I'm seeing them, I want them to get the understanding of what they have, why they have it, how much we know about it, what they can do in terms of support for what they have. And then we can start talking about care and what the medicines will do.
I think that there's a big part of what we do that's missed at times- where we don't take into account the patient's living situation, how they have to go to work, what their family is going to say about things that they have to do. And I think the social-cultural aspects of what I do are probably more important almost than the medicine part.
You know, you learn the medicine part and you do it for 20-some years and you've got that down. It's the cultural parts that change for every patient and I think my philosophy is really treating the entire person. Maybe sometimes the family. And getting them better in that way.

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**I need an appointment

[@tanemray]

one year to get an appointment....pfftttt

[@brandnew2767]

It would be great to see her IF you didn’t have to wait 6 months for an appointment, then when you do, you can no longer schedule with her. “Her policy” ridiculous!!!