I went to Ingrid Warmuth in July 2020 to get some antibiotic for a resurgence of itchy athletes' foot that had popped up between my toes. Her office was Warmuth Institute of Dermatology (Elmer/Sweedesboro), so it appears she's since joined Schweiger Derm. (Perhaps her own practice had failed . . . ?)
Warmuth had lots of impressive-looking diplomas and certifs on her walls, but she couldn't seem to diagnose a simple fungal rash to save her life! I thought I'd misheard her when she looked at my smattering of little red bumps and declared she'd need to biopsy it "to know what it was" and therefore provide treatment.
LOL! You're kidding me, right? Here's a supposed super-learned skin professional and the first thing she wants to do is saddle me with the additional expense of performing an unnecessary biopsy!
Only one of two types of rashes it could be, after all, fungal or allergic--and it certainly wasn't poison ivy. And because I'd had the AF in that same area of my foot before, it was the first thing I'd told her before her quick peek at it. "No," I said. "You're not going to biopsy anything, Doc. Please write me a script for some antibiotic to kill that creeping AT fungus, and I'll be on my way."
I'm age 50+ and 5' 4" and 120 pounds. Yet Warmuth was apparently so alarmed that I'd had the temerity to question her procedure (aka: biopsy scam), that she immediately called an assistant into the room just to have someone else present--for protection, I guess--as she wrote the script.
I guess I was so stunned that a dermatologist couldn't identify an extremely common rash by sight and was furthermore insisting on doing a biopsy rather than to simply prescribe some cream that maybe some disgust was evident in my voice when I declined to enrich her further?
So I took my script and beat it out of there (never to return). After four days of using the antibiotic, the rash completely disappeared. Voila! read more