Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/derma.1.001
Invited commentary on “Greening the office: Saving resources, saving money, and educating our patients
Loren C Shkolnik, FNP1, David P Fivenson, MD1,*
- 1Fivenson Dermatology, 3200 W. Liberty Rd, Suite C5, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Corresponding Author
David P Fivenson, dfivenson@fivensondermatology.com
Received Date: January 17, 2021
Accepted Date: April 30, 2021
Shkolnik LC, Fivenson DP. Invited commentary on “Greening the office: Saving resources, saving money, and educating our patients. Dermatol J. 2021; 1(1):1-3.
Copyright: © 2021 Shkolnik LC, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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