Victoria A. Cirillo-Hyland, MD, FAAD

I went to the office for a consultation about my sun damaged skin. I left the office after having my face and body “trade walked”. What does that mean? Allow me to explain: when you go to a car dealership with your trade in hoping to get X amount of dollars, just before the trade the salesperson walks around your car pointing out everything that’s wrong. Your trade in is now worth a lot less. And that’s what happened at that office. I was told that my sun damage would need several sessions, which I believe, but it was because “it’s their work and reputation on the line”. I explained I was using sun block in my makeup, my tech jumped right in before I could finish and said “It’s definitely not working”. Next, my tech prefaced this next statement with “I’m sure you know that we all have “dif