The Unlikely Comeback of the ‘Pill-Popping Dermatologist’
Dr. Cheryl Karcher in her office. “Nobody asks for this disease,” she says. “Nobody wants to be addicted.”CreditAndrew White for The New York TimesJuly 9, 2014 dawned hot, dry and cloudless, the New York sidewalks shimmering in the heat. Dr. Cheryl Karcher, a frequent dermatology expert on CNN and shows like “The Doctors,” had no television appearances scheduled that day, but, as always, was camera-ready in her olive green Theory pants and crisp cream blouse.
She said her “I love you/I love you more”s to her children after they and her husband dropped her off at her Park Avenue office, and she was readying a laser for her first patient of the day. There was a knock on the door.
Dr. Cheryl Karcher in her office. “Nobody asks for this disease,” she says. “Nobody wants to be addicted.”CreditAndrew White for The New York TimesJuly 9, 2014 dawned hot, dry and cloudless, the New York sidewalks shimmering in the heat. Dr. Cheryl Karcher, a frequent dermatology expert on CNN and shows like “The Doctors,” had no television appearances scheduled that day, but, as always, was camera-ready in her olive green Theory pants and crisp cream blouse.
She said her “I love you/I love you more”s to her children after they and her husband dropped her off at her Park Avenue office, and she was readying a laser for her first patient of the day. There was a knock on the door.
