Ottawa Hospital for skin cancer check. Had two actinic keratosis spots frozen off, since they can mutate into squamous cell cancer (not a high concern cancer) , but otherwise OK. Two doctors in their twenties looked me over very professionally and gave good advice on avoiding the sun (hat, shirt) and upping the SPF on sun tan lotion to 50. I told them I'd had chicken pox in case there was anything that looked like shingles. They both said 'chicken pox!' as if I was talking about a long forgotten disease. Since the vaccine was released around 2000 chicken pox cases in Canada have dropped from ten of thousands to a few hundred each year, and I don't think either doctor had seen a case in real life.
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