Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine is the classic dermatology textbook1,2—so the question of whether a skin care professional needs to own it is moot. The real question is whether to buy the new seventh edition or scrape by with the 6th edition for a few more years.
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Cory A. Dunnick (2008) studied this question.