Throwing the Perfect CoolSculpting Party!
Want to attract serious, sophisticated patients interested in CoolSculpting?! Host a CoolSculpting and caviar party! We recently did this at Pacific Heights Plastic Surgery and we had a very successful shindig! Our arriving guests were offered caviar bites with creme fraiche on blinis by the The Caviar Co., an exclusive caviar purveyor, providing unsurpassed […]
Negative Reviews on Yelp: The Physician Perspective
Your office provides excellent customer service. You offer every arriving patient a cup of coffee, tea or water. They never wait more than 5 minutes to see the doctor. You offer full price transparency online prior to the visit. The doctor encourages patients to email questions before a surgical procedure. The evening after the surgical procedure, […]
Why Yelp is partly to blame for the current opioid crisis!
I recently wrote about the ongoing opioid epidemic. More opioid overdoses and deaths currently than anytime in recent memory. In case you didn’t read this post, I blamed a lot of people and organizations for the recent crisis. I argued that it all started with the American Pain Society in 1996. For those of you […]
Radiesse and Belotero Lower Face Challenge!
Do you have wrinkles around the mouth like this patient above?! Now there’s something you can do about it. Fillers are great injectable products that can fill facial wrinkles. When evaluating deep and superficial wrinkles, it’s important to recognize that one filler doesn’t fit all. Radiesse is great for deeper wrinkles; Belotero for the more […]
The Mini Necklift!
If you’re the right candidate, you can get a necklift without the big painful scars behind the ears! It all breaks down like this: depending on what’s “wrong” with your neck – excess skin, excess fat or a lax neck muscle (platysma) – will determine which procedure is best for you. Which necklift is […]
Read the BuildMyBod Health White Paper on Price Transparency
It’s here…the definitive white paper on price transparency in healthcare! Before you fall asleep, check out this article in the Annals of Plastic Surgery. As the article explains, with BuildMyBod Health, you can take control of your out-of-pocket healthcare costs and your doctor is incentivized to help you determine cost ahead of time too. The article uses […]
What millennials want…and it’s not skin care!
Millennials, the generation that followed Generation X and were born in the 80’s and 90’s (those in their 20’s and 30’s now) are known to be impatient and jonesing to change the world. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, that impatience extends to skin care (and thus why it’s a topic on this […]
Is the FDA taking away your right to get a Brazilian Butt Lift?!
As you may be aware, many patients are requesting fat injections for a Brazilian Butt Lift and other treatments that reuse and recycle their own fat. Fat injections are a great way to use your own fat gathered through liposuction, which is then placed into the butt or face to plump up that area. In the […]
CoolSculpting and Caviar!
Join us for a first-of-its-kind CoolSculpting and Caviar event! On Wednesday, May 18th, from 12p to 2p, we’ll have the owners of San Francisco-based The Caviar Co. serving caviar from their exclusive holdings as Dr. Kaplan and PHPS discuss the latest advances in non-surgical fat reduction – CoolSculpting! Using a freezing technology developed at […]
Before and After Photos: Behind the Scenes!
Look at the before and after photos to the left. Great looking tummy tuck result and the patient is thrilled. But why does it look particularly good? Maybe because you can’t see the requisite tummy tuck scar that goes with it? The patient’s underwear, worn in a position normal for her, is covering the scar. […]
Did the 5th Vital Sign Lead to Opioid Addiction?
For those of you not in the medical field, there are typically four vital signs the nurse or doctor takes of the patient: blood pressure, respirations, heart rate and temperature. But in 1996, the American Pain Society coined the phrase, the 5th vital sign, which is pain. The only problem is that while the first […]
Feeling miserable? Nothing an IV can’t cure!
I recently had what I think was the flu. Night sweats, malaise, sneezing, coughing etc. But the night sweats was what really got me because I became so dehydrated in just a matter of hours while sleeping. With the nurses in my office seeing how dehydrated/ill I looked, they suggested IV fluids. Whoa! Did that […]
