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Letters Author Affiliations: Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and labeled as psychodermatology clinics or any health center in Allergology, HELIOS St Elisabeth Hospital Oberhausen, University Witten/ which mental health clinicians are involved. Herdecke, Oberhausen, Germany (Kreuter, Koushk-Jalali, Mitrakos, Tigges); We have more than 30 years of experience seeing psycho- Institute of Pathology, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany (Oellig); Department of dermatology patients at the University of California, San Fran- Dermatology, HELIOS Hospital Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany (Assaf); Dermatopathology Research Unit, Department of Dermatology, Medical cisco, including patients with delusions of parasitosis. We have University of Graz, Graz, Austria (Cerroni). experienced first-hand that patients are averse to schedule ini- Corresponding Author: Alexander Kreuter, MD, Department of Dermatology, tial appointments or follow-up for care if there is any inkling Venereology and Allergology, HELIOS St Elisabeth Hospital Oberhausen, that mental health clinicians may be involved. Therefore, we University Witten/Herdecke, Josefstrasse 3, 46045 Oberhausen, Germany deliberately avoid using terms like psychodermatology clinic (alexander.kreuter@helios-kliniken.de). or patient. We refer to these patients as VIP patients. In real- Published Online: June 17, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2020.1231 ity, they truly are VIP patients because we spend so much more Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported. time with them than with a
JAMA Dermatology – American Medical Association
Published: Oct 26, 2020
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