Abstract
Few dermatologic problems carry as much emotional overtones as the complaint of hair loss in women. Adding to the patient’s worry may be prior frustrating experiences with physicians, who tend to trivialize complaints of hair loss or dismiss them completely. Even if the complaint of hair loss may at times seem disproportionate to the extent of recognizable hair loss, the proportion of women suffering of truly imaginary hair loss (psychogenic pseudoeffluvium) is negligible.
It is easier to write a prescription than to come to an understanding with the patient.
Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor (1920)
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Trüeb, R.M. (2013). Patient Expectation Management. In: Female Alopecia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35503-5_5
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