Dr Moz, 113 Mountain View Road, Briar Hill (2025)

15/11/2025

Remember the basics and you’ll do well

Weird thing on your skin?
Been there more than 4 weeks?
Slowly changing?

Go get it checked

You can stick your head in the sand if you want but it means that non surgical options might no longer be as effective.

This hand has earned itself a trial of a cream and we will see how it goes. Hopefully we don’t need any more than that!

If your medic is unsure (happens to me all the time) you might earn yourself a little biopsy which lets you both know what you’re dealing with so you can work on a plan of attack together

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Want to learn more dermosocpy? Healthcert (use code DRMOZ for 15% off any of their courses - I am extremely biased because I teach on their courses and think they are fantastic!)
Want to see me? Yarra Trail Medical or Bell Street Family Medical

12/11/2025

Thankfully melanoma on the foot is rare overall but why do us doctors have such a hard time diagnosing it?!

Reality is it all comes down to the “Wallace Line” that’s found on the foot.

Big thank you to Dr Ash Marghoob who gave a phenomenal talk at this years Healthcert Dermoscopy Masterclass and let us all know historically it was a GEOGRAPHIC line used to differentiate where certain animals can be found on the world!!!!!

I digress!

Below Wallace’s line moles have a particular behaviour unique behaviour to those found above.

If the mole CROSSES the line that’s a whole different ball game again

What should you do if you’re the one with the mole on your foot?

Same bloody thing I tell you to do every video 😂😂

Be aware of your appts and seek medical review by a clinician skilled in dermoscopy for any changing spots!!

What if you’re the doctor?
Go check out some of the excellent Dermoscopy courses at and tell em I sent you with my code. Yes I get paid a small fee but you get smarter and together we find more cancers.

Oh no I forgot to turn on my special doctor handwriting so only other doctors could read that last bit!!!

Tag your doctor if you want to show them love

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Want to learn more dermosocpy? Healthcert (use code DRMOZ for 15% off any of their courses - I am extremely biased because I teach on their courses and think they are fantastic!)
Want to see me? Yarra Trail Medical or Bell Street Family Medical

11/11/2025

Hands up if you’re coming this Sunday to the RUN for Palestine. A great event with the event running in some fashion since 2007!!!

The RUN for Palestine is back this year and we want to show them that we’ve missed them and the excellent work they do.

An Australian charity that is close to all our hearts and does amazing work getting necessities to kids in Palestine from way back.

This will not be my first time going and certainly won’t be my last but it’s my first time asking you all to join me in donating to their appeal to help deliver food packages, blankets, mattresses, clothing, nappies, and educational projects to children and families in Gaza.

The event is sold out (with I believe 1500 runners!!!) but maybe come and show them your support anyway and if you can’t make it use the link below or in my story to donate to the appeal!!

Much Love ✌️

https://olivekids.org.au/donate/

06/11/2025

Do skin cancers always hurt or cause problems?

Well yes and no!!

If left alone for long enough they will usually become symptomatic. I will always ask about:
😬 Bleeding
😬 Tenderness
😬 Ulceration
😬 Itch
😬 Growth
😬 Scale

BUT I would love it so much more if we didn’t have to wait for these things to be problematic. Melanoma (and all other skin cancers!!) have much better outcomes if found early and treated quickly.

This particular spot was the first one I had found after dealing with about 4 or 5 that we identifyed at our first skin check so she ended up with a TINY surgical procedure which was no more than half the size of all the others!

Early diagnosis is the way to go and for this we need you as the patient to really be an active participant! Let your doctor know if your spots are changing or new or if you are noticing something that wasn’t there before.

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In Australia I recommend Docstockmedical
Want to learn more dermosocpy? Healthcert (use code DRMOZ for 15% off any of their courses - I am extremely biased because I teach on their courses and think they are fantastic!)
Want to see me? Yarra Trail Medical or Bell Street Family Medical

27/10/2025

That ulcer or wound that won’t heal driving you nuts?

You’re pretty sure you got it from the garden right? But you can’t exactly remember how?

Our brains 🧠 love an explanation and sometimes they love it so much they will create one where it doesn’t really exist!!

Any non healing ulcer is suspicious for a skin cancer as both squamous cell and basal cell cancers can manifest this way.

By having an examination that includes magnification with a dermatoscope you can sometimes CLEARLY tell that it’s a cancer but as a general rule you should be very wary of a wound that won’t heal!!!

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24/10/2025

I love new toys and my latest toy is the DL5 dermatoscope. It’s got a bunch of feature upgrades from my previous DL4 but my favourite by a long shot is the UV dermoscopy.

Using UV to highlight keratin is a great way to seperate out some of the more benign lesions we see that are tricky to diagnose.

This spot is obvious but it highlights the difference so clearly!

If you want to see more UV dermoscopy hit me with a ☢️

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22/10/2025

These subtle skin cancers are so easy to miss. It’s why I think every skin examination should be done with a dermatoscope.

With the naked eye it would be near on impossible to be confident that this is any different to the two over active sweat glands right next to it.

If you’re not carefully assessing each spot under magnification it is far more likely that little things like this will be missed which leads to much bigger surgical procedures increasing the risk of poor outcomes.

Even though this one is tiny you can clearly see it’s subtype is a “Nodular” one which means the typical non invasive creams and other options may have a higher risk of failing

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18/10/2025

You know what I love most about teaching? That I get to learn a bunch of new things and meet a bunch of new people!!

Made lots of new friends today

Got to learn a bunch of interesting things

Got to hang with some amazing rockstars in my co facilitators for the surgical course run by Healthcert

Best part?

I get to do it all again tomorrow at the advanced surgical skills workshop!

If you’re looking to sharpen your dermoscopy or surgical skill sets these courses are a wonderful way to do that and meet a bunch of amazing new people at the same time 😃

After 4 years of doing these courses I’m yet to walk away from one of these weekends without a big grin from ear to ear!

14/10/2025

The Drama! The suspense!!

What happens when the pathology disagrees with the doctor?!

Well sometimes (most of the time) I am just wrong and the pathologist is on the money. That’s because they have the privellage of being able to carefully analyse the spots we send tehm under a miscroscope and look very carefully for things that I have missed.

On occasion however the pathology report doesn’t match what the doctor sees and in this instance you really need a switched on clinician who will call the lab and ask them to cut more slices to ensure the disagreement is sorted.

Something like this happens to me at least a handful of times a year and I am extremely lucky to have pathologists I have worked with for close to ten years now who automatically run more slices when they see we are miles apart from each other. This degree of relationship and trust is built on years of working together and always having the patient’s best interest at heart.

So this post I guess is a bit of education for patients, a gentle reminder for junior colleagues and some public love for Infinity Pathology (not an ad!!)

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03/10/2025

I’ve done a video on these skin spots before but I can’t help but be amazed at how phenomenal it bodies are!

Lichen planus like keratosis usually has this striking grey peppering uniformly distributed throughout the lesion

This pattern lets us know your body is attacking and getting rid of a harmless spot (usually a solar lentigo or a seborrhoeic keratosis)

No further action is usually needed and we can safely ignore these in most instances once the diagnosis has been confirmed on dermoscopy

Just more evidence of how much we’ve learnt since starting to use Dermoscopy!

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14/08/2025

Hands up if you’re going to the masterclass this weekend! 🙌

Excited to hear from two of the most engaging and knowledgeable clinicians out there about Dermoscopy!!

Can’t wait to hear Dr Ash Marghoob and Prof Cristian Navarrete-Dechent!!

If you’re there and you see me make sure to say hi! 👋

07/08/2025

Worried about that spot that wasn’t there last summer?
Skin checks should be accessible for everyone — that’s why I’ve added more affordable appointment options at :
🧴 $60 spot check
🧴 $100 full skin check

Prefer ? I’m still consulting there too — no changes, same quality care, all the premium tech goodies!

Wherever suits you best, I’m here to help. Because peace of mind should be accesible to all

Dr Moz

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