More patients than docs report skin surgery problems

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than one quarter of people being treated for non-melanoma skin cancer in their doctor’s office reported some type of complication after surgery, in a new study. About half of those complications were medical problems related to the cancer-removing procedure, including pain, infections and slow wound healing. But just 3 percent of doctors noted a complication in the same patients’ medical records, researchers reported this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. …