A week to wait for an appointment seems like a long time, especially to a high school kid wanting to compete. But when you look at the grand scheme of things, a week without wrestling is much better than infecting someone for life. If a general physician had the experience to tell when something was contagious or not, then there wouldn't be any problem with disease transfer. The problem lies in the aforementioned "pictures" that doctors can look at to see if a disease is still communicable. The pictures that doctors look at are no different than the ones in our rule books. These pictures show grand-scale infections. Diseases like impetigo contagiosa, herpes simplex (and less serious diseases like Ring Worm) can be in their remission phases, but are still contagious. A doctor without experience in this area sees that the infection is in remission (when compared with his pictures), signs a note, and the wrestler passes on his problem to others during the last few days of infection. This is why these pesky diseases are still a nuisance. So, wrestlers should do what it takes and take a week or two off, get an appointment with a dermatologist, and get FULLY healed before competing. Because no one wants to try to explain to their girlfriend how they came home with herpes.