re: WTF Is Growing On My Leg?

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A gp could remove it?

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Depends what you mean by GP. There are essentially no GPs in practice anymore. If you mean Family Medicine or Internal Medicine doctors; then yes, many of them (typically more on the Family than Internal side) do procedures like this all through residency and all through their careers.

ETA- as said before, more often the pediatricians skimp on doing in-office procedures. They're typically fantastic with rashes. They're great, usually, at diagnosing derm lesions. They usually just don't cut them out.

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I wouldn't want my face cut on by someone who doesn't have a lot of experience with it

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No one would do it that wasn't comfortable doing it.

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He explained exactly how he was cutting it out and why he was doing it that way

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That's really just a personality thing that you happen to like about the guy. You cut deep enough to get everything abnormal out, you make the incision about 3-4 times as long as it is wide. Depending on how deep it is depends on how you close it. Since it's on a kid's face, he probably did a more complex closure like a couple of interrupted sub-q sutures in hopes to reduce scarring, but more so for being able to bill for a mid-level closure and get a higher reimbursement from the insurance company.

In all honesty, not putting cream wouldn't have reduced the scar (if that's what that's implying. Maybe I am reading it wrong). Anytime you make a cut in the skin, you'll get a small scar.

If you were meaning that's why it progressed to the point it needed to be cut out, that's probably a combination of 1) no one ever taking medicine as prescribed because it's actually just really hard to do 2) the result of a more aggressive physician- it can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing. If you're ever uncomfortable with it, you should always voice your opinion as to whether you're concerned that the doc is too aggressive or too passive. They're almost always happy to refer to someone slightly more midline/opposite themselves.