Editorial: Dermatology: we need to look beyond the borders

In medical practice, specialization has improved the delivery of medical care in many ways, but much like the rest of life, it also has resulted in compartmentalization. compartments create borders, and all of us, at one time or another, have trouble seeing beyond them and thus prevent us from visualizing certain things. there are important things happening in other disciplines that we can't see. there may be bias in what we see coming from another compartments, so this also makes some of our own observations untrustworthy and we can't always trust even what we do see. furthermore, this approach also affects the context in which we interpret our observations