Dr. Joon-Ho Park

To the families I could not help — For six years, I sat across from your teenagers and handed them the only things I was trained to: creams that burned their face, antibiotics that wrecked their stomach, and a drug called Accutane that I knew was treating the wrong thing. I told myself it was the only way. It was not. I grew up in Korea. In all my years there, I almost never saw the acne that fills American clinics. Same teenagers. Same hormones. Same junk food. Yet clear skin.