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If the diagnosis is mild, doctors usually go with topical cream and oral medicines; if not, they use Accutane – the brand name for isotretinoin – which Tang described as the “big gun”.

The one silver-lining of signing on to take Accutane (an oral retinoid pill prescribed to treat acne) was the excuse it gave ...