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Medical Spa MD: New Articles

• Medical Spa Photographs & Testimonials: Keeping it Legal
  Medical Spa ads are often peppered with photos (highlighting “real” patients and models) and glowing testimonials.    Images of more than ideal treatment results from Botox, laser hair removal, fillers, chemical peels, photofacials grace local rags to targeted online ad placements…okay, you get the picture.  A recent article stated that there are now more me […]
• The Medical Fusion Conference. A New Select Partner.
  A new Select Partner has joined Medical Spa MD, the Medical Fusion Conference. The Medical Fusion Conference is something of an anomaly in the medical conference circut. It's a conference built around providing physicians additional or tangential sources of income in addition to their regular clinical practice, and it's a damn good idea. The Medica […]
• Average Salary For Physicians
  Here's what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Services (BLS) report as the average salary of a physician in the US. In 2008, physicians practicing primary care had total median annual compensation of $186,044, and physicians practicing in medical specialties earned total median annual compensation of $339,738." Let's look at a few specific specialties, […]
• Medical Tourism: $100B and growing
  Smartlipo in Mexico, a nose job in the Philippines or a kidney transplant in India..... Medical tourism is generally defined as leaving home for care. It can be inbound, (someone from Mexico coming to the US), outbound (leaving the home country to go to another country) or domestic. There are local, regional, national and international medical tourism cluste […]
• Medical Fusion Conference: Guest Speaker Medical Justice
  Dr. Jeffrey Segal, founder of Medical Justice, will be speaking at the Medical Fusion conference in November.  He also happens to be a Medical Spa MD Select Partner to boot. Turning A Negative Into A Positive, The Medical Justice Story I am a board-certified neurosurgeon who was sued one time for what I perceived to be a frivolous reason. The single expert w […]
• Botox From China. It Play Good.
  Get your Botox from China. Then get yourself a good lawyer. Look, I'm not in the habit of bashing anyones' second language skills considering my own inadiquacies with Japanese, French and German, but if you're going to be soliciting business in a country and promoting illegal activities, you'd better have a slicker pitch that this one for […]
• Medical Spa MD: Change In Federal Gift Certificate Law
  On Sunday, August 22nd, the new federal gift certificate law went into effect. What does this mean to your medical spa? In essence, the new law sets a 5-year minimum term for most gift certificates sold in the U.S. and it doesn't shorten any minimum terms required by your State law. Period. The new law is just extending the terms of expiration if they p […]
• Your Medical Spa & Laser Clinic Advertising Sucks
  I hate to tell you this, but your advertising sucks. That's alright. Your competitors advertising sucks too. In the last ten years that I've been around medical spas, laser clincs, dermatologist practices and plastic surgery centers, I've seen a lot of sucky advertising. In the kingdom of the blinid, the one-eyed man is king. It's more th […]
• The Medical Spa MD Micro-loan Fund
  Join Medical Spa MD and our Members to do some good around the world. If you've never heard of Kiva, it's a micro-lending organization that provides working capital in amounts as small as $25 or $100 to entrepreneurs in third world countries. My daughter has had a tiny, $100 'micro-lending' fund that we started when she was ten. So far, t […]
• Botox News: Allergans Profits Jump 36%
  Botox continues to be a golden child for Allergan, but there are a number of other products that are bolstering the drug giant's sales. Allergan, and most especially Botox, is always on my radar... Since we opened the first medical spa back in 2000, I'm sure that we've put more than one of Allergan's sales reps into a new house. (Perhaps […]
• Study Shows Disturbing Medical Lawsuit Numbers
  Frivolous or not, harsh statistics show lawsuits are running rampant against physicians... There are about 95 medical liability claims filed for every 100 physicians—or almost one per doctor—and nearly 61% of physicians age 55 and older have been sued, according to a report released by the American Medical Association  and based on a survey of 5,825 “non-fed […]
• Medical Spas & Cosmetic Crimes
  From our friends over at Healthy Aging Magazine, an article that may or may not surprise you...... Depending on what statistics you read, tight economic times can either produce crime increases or decreases. However, a particularly peculiar variety of crime seems to be increasing these days—vanity crimes. No, I’m not talking about the crime of going too big […]
• New Medical Spa Regulations for Arizona & Texas
  Arizona Medical Spa Regulation Update: Esthetician & IPL Laser Technicians Arizona requires all training providers be registered with the state to provide training to comply with their requirements. The program shall provide a provisional certificate to the applicant verifying the successful completion of the didactic training.An esthetician who has been […]
• Is Taiwan Asia's Next One-Stop Plastic Surgery Shop?
  Tourists who frequently return to Taiwan might recommend savoring succulent street food or exploring Taipei's boisterous night markets. Or they may pass along the business card of a favorite plastic surgeon or dermatologist.... And why not? Taiwan has long been popular with its expatriate population as a medical-travel destination. At Taipei's abun […]
• Medical Spa Horror Stories: Woman Dies From Silicone Butt Injections
  Illegal medical spas and filler injection services are up and running, and actually killing people. If it weren't bad enough that there are websites marketing "do it yourself Botox injections" and "filler injection kits" for home use, there are still people out there who are willing to go to a motel room and have non-physicians injec […]