Thursday, June 7, 2012

This is what a lifetime of sunshine can do to truckers

This is what a lifetime of sunshine can do to truckers

This picture of a 69-year-old trucker in The New England Journal of Medicine is striking. You can clearly see the effects of his 28-year career behind the wheel, with each wrinkle plotted out across his skin like a road map. The left side of his face got this way due to sun exposure, what those dermatologists who read NEJM call dermatoheliosis, a "thickening and wrinkling of the skin.". But what's really surprising is to see the full image of both sides of his face, and just how different the right side looks.

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