In recent years I have twice attended a dermatologist via a referral by my doctor to have flat brown warts removed from various parts of my torso by the Hystofreeze method. These warts are not only very unsightly but hurt when catching on clothes and when bathing. However, the warts return over a period of time and so need to be treated again.
On visits to two doctors recently I was told that they were no longer aloud to refer these warts to a dermatologist. So I asked the doctors redpectively to do it themselves and was quickly told that 'they weren't paid to do it'.
"Do you mean that I am being refused this treatment completely"? I asked, and they said "well, you know, these things come along as we get older, I wouldn't worry about it, it is considered to be aesthetic/cosmetic not medical". I then posed the question "if I was a teenager with acne on my face, would you refuse to treat it?" This question was not answered.
I let these doctors know that I was unhappy with this situation and felt my age (65) was being used as an excuse for refusing treatment.
Both these doctors finally treated my warts on each of these two visits, not, I might add, as well as the dermatologist had done previously.
I hope my fellow 'Gransneters' feel able to stand up to less than adequate communication skills from their doctors and to question refusals of treatments like this.
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I didn't refer to you as an old girl!!!! That was me!. 
"Sorry you feel that way JO4." I don't feel any way about it. Just saying...
I think I've developed a harder shell than I had when I was a teenager.
I still care about the bits that show. Actually, I've got one of these on my face but it's at the side right near the hairline. And it has thankfully stayed light coloured. I scratch at it every now and again to get rid of it. 
They'll all say the same! It's the usual problem - money. 
Well there's that. But it would bankrupt me. I think some people must be more prone to the blighters than others.
Bankrupt you JO??? Just how many do you have...sorry too personal. We love you anyway warts and all! 
I think skin tags are age-related perhaps?
I would just like to say, before I faint away, mine are NOT as bad as those on shysal's link.
I have now realised that, on Gransnet I have spoken about my thinning hair on top, my slight hump, and my sebhorreic warts.
You must be getting the picture by now.
Yikes! I thought that was a photo of DH for an awful minute....
I hope not anno.
Shoulders back, hump in! (As DD keeps reminding me )
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