Breast Lift via GoPro Video
If you’ve been following our blog, you’ll see that we’re now able to educate patients on various surgical procedures using the GoPro head-mounted camera. Today’s installment is for a straightforward breast lift without implants. You see, not everyone in need of breast rejuvenation needs implants. If you have enough breast volume and just want […]
Short Scar Neck Lift via GoPro Video
If you’ve been following our blog, you’ll see that we’re now able to educate patients on various surgical procedures using the GoPro head-mounted camera. Today’s installment describes a short scar neck lift. For some patients that have a great deal of excess neck skin, sometimes called a turkey gobbler neck, they require removal of […]
Here’s How I Turned Traffic Into 150 Percent Lead Growth
When you first built your website, did your web developer promise more clicks and traffic? They may have even shown you stats backing up that claim, but at some point you realized that you can’t contact a “click” and you don’t know who’s in that traffic! That was the driving force behind my plan […]
Health Insurance Companies Don’t Care About You/Me
I believe in capitalism and I believe that a company shouldn’t be ashamed of trying to make a profit. After all, staying in business is the name of the game. But when it comes to your healthcare, there is some unwritten rule or maybe it is written in the form of the Hippocratic Oath, that […]
Skype Medical Consults
The future is here. I know it seems like it’s been here for a while, but it’s really here now! Doctors have been offering online consults for the last several years but the combination of better user experiences and higher speed internet service has made Skype medical consults a reality rather than just a good […]
Dr. Fredric Brandt: In memoriam
Dr. Fredric Brandt, a dermatologist to the stars, was recently found deceased in his Miami apartment from suspected suicide. I didn’t know Dr. Brandt. In fact, I had not heard of him until reading this NY Times article in March of 2014. Regardless, he is credited for bringing non-surgical options like Botox and filler wrinkle treatments […]
Want surgery? Ask a friend.
I just performed surgery on a patient. My patient had a friend who recently had the same procedure. It’s been a great recovery for both the patient and for me! During the consultation and preop visit, I always go over the surgery we’ll be performing, the risks and benefits, the process on the day […]
Pharmacy Costs
I recently had a patient that needed some antibiotics after her surgery. She initially asked me to call her prescription in to Costco but Costco’s pharmacy is closed on Sunday. So I asked the patient to provide me with a 24-hour pharmacy near where she lives. Enter “Unnamed chain pharmacy”. She sent me a […]
Dogma is a bad word in medicine
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the medical establishment is rethinking the whole perioperative period – that time before surgery when you’re starving because you can’t eat or the time after surgery when you’re nauseated, in pain and overloaded with fluid. Medicine is changing, and in this case, for the better. […]
Upper and Lower Eyelid Lift via GoPro!
We’ve posted a video of an upper and lower eyelid lift in our growing library of video content as seen through a head-mounted GoPro camera! The beauty of using a GoPro is that it provides a bird’s eye view from the surgeon’s perspective. No need to worry about getting that perfect angle or concern over the […]
Botox while you’re CoolSculpting
This is a reminder to all you folks out there that have a stubborn pocket of fat on your body as well as a few wrinkles you don’t like! Currently, CoolSculpting, the non-surgical fat reduction treatment is doing a cross promotion with Allergan, the company that makes Botox and Juvederm. If you receive both […]
Brazilian Butt Lift via GoPro camera
We’ve posted another video in our growing library of video content as seen through a head-mounted GoPro camera! The beauty of using a GoPro is that it provides a bird’s eye view from the surgeon’s perspective. A Brazilian Butt Lift can mean different things to different people but a growing consensus suggests that it […]