Doctors doing little to promote sunscreen use: study

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors rarely talk to patients about using sunscreen, even when patients have a history of skin cancer, according to surveys of U.S. physicians over two decades. Despite professional guidelines encouraging doctors to educate their patients about sun protection, in more than 18 billion patient visits from 1989 to 2010, sunscreen was mentioned less than one percent of the time. Even dermatologists managed to mention sunscreen in less than two percent of visits, researchers found. …