Hey all, welcome back to another episode of Skin Anarchy. I'm so thrilled about our guest today because she is a

triple board certified dermatologist, she is an internist, and a dermatopathologist. So we can basically ask her

anything that we want about skin health, and she will know because she has done such extensive

training in this field and all related fields. So without further ado, please welcome Dr. Mamina Tarragano.

Welcome to show.

I'm so excited to host you, and I'm so excited to dive in.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's an honor to be here.

Thank you.

Oh, no, the honor is truly mine.

I'm really excited to chat with you.

More importantly, learn from you. I mean, it's so impressive that you have board certifications and not just dermatology, but also insurance medicine and dermatopathology. That's huge,

you know, so like I said, I'm very, very excited that we can pretty much ask you anything.

We'll get an answer. We'll see about that. We'll see about that. But thank you.

I'd love to start off by learning more about you and what really

got you into, you know, dermatology overall. Was there something that happened in medical school that

sparked your interest or how did this all start? Yeah, it was actually medical school because I had

the intention going into medical school to go into primary care and the years leading up to me going to medical school,

I've always had a passion also for integrative medicine, taking a more holistic approach to medicine.

And I thought primary care was the best avenue to take to integrate this approach. And when I was

doing my rheumatology rotation, which is a subset of internal medicine, rheumatology deals with a lot

of autoimmune diseases. And there's a lot of overlap with autoimmune diseases and skin diseases. And I just saw

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