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By Janine Ferguson
Photography by Cory Sorensen
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Dermatologist Anna D. Guanche, MD,
finds success by choosing and pursuing
the right patients for her practice.
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DERMATOLOGIST AND DERMATOLOGIC SURGEON Anna D. Guanche, MD, entered medical
school with her sights set on becoming an orthopedic surgeon in the field of hand microsurgery, until
a friend persuaded her to do a two-week rotation in dermatology. "Te morning of my very first day of
rotation we did laser resurfacing, a lip filler and a large skin cancer surgery on the abdomen," she recalls.
"I was dumb-founded. I could not believe that we could do all these procedures in dermatology." At
lunchtime, she called her husband to tell him she would be changing her specialty. "I knew I would never
be bored. I love detail work—that's why hand microsurgery appealed to me—but this allowed me to do
more than one area of the body," says Dr. Guanche. "I can make people feel good, and it's artistic, which
was something I wanted from the very beginning."
28 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 | MedEsthetics