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Archive for April, 2009

"For Men Only"

Posted in Main at 5:34 am by Doctor

Okay guys … web stats show you look at this website too … a lot of you.

Wanna know why?  ’Cause you’re just like me and want to change how you see yourself … look better … look sexier … look younger (or at least reverse what’s making you look OLD).

Yeah, this website clearly has a feminine look to it — but we’re outnumbered and I gotta go with the flow.  But — that doesn’t mean YOU can’t come here.  

We treat a lot of guys — just … like … you.

You wouldn’t believe what a little Botox and filler can do for your appearance.

And that spare tire?  Gone — with laser assisted liposuction (SmartLipo) done safely right here in the office.

Acne scars finally getting to you?  Or those years on the golf course (hows that swing by the way?) have your face looking like a bad putting green with brown spots?  You don’t have to put up with that you know.  A series of Fraxel treatments will put things to rights.

If you’re going to live longer you might as well look your best.

And if you’re climbing the corporate ladder nothing says “I’m ready for my promotion” like a youthful looking, smooth skinned, trim bodied go-getter.

Come on in — the water’s fine.

You’ll be treated like the King you are.

James C. Fairfield, MD FAAD

The Dangers of Tire-Kicking

Posted in Main at 9:55 am by Doctor

Picked up a copy of the local advertising rag the other day and saw an ad for Botox at $9 per unit.

Commoditized just like a loaf of bread.  Happen to know it’s a GP doing it (and I don’t really care about that — If he’s qualified.)

But here’s the problem.  Just like the Botox example already mentioned we get calls every day “price shopping” SmartLipo laser assisted liposuction.

Going to the lowest bidder.

So what?

It’s your body, your face, and your self-esteem at stake …

Don’t know about you, but I’d be darned if I was going to turn my looks over to the person willing to sacrifice quality and service for price just to ‘get the business’.

Here’s something else you should know …

I’ve spent countless hours explaining to new and desperate clients the “swelling” in their tummies is not swelling — but fat the “other-guy-who-was-cheaper” said would go away in time.  But it’s never “swelling” — but fat — not removed at all.  But it was cheaper. :(

 

And then the dropped eyebrows and droopy eyelids from badly administered Botox — cheaper, yes — but placed without regard to anatomy.

I can’t stand to see people mistreated this way.

Here’s my advice when you “go shopping” for cosmetic procedures.

Go to a Board Certified Expert.

Make sure he/she has other clients willing to talk to you about the quality of results YOU are looking for and want.

Go ahead — price shop your bread and tomatoes – but place your looks into the hands of experts who value quality of their work and service before, during, and after your experience.

It’s tough enough out there figuring out who’s the best at their craft — but the last criterion should be price.

‘Nuff said.

James C. Fairfield, MD FAAD

PS: :FAAD” means “Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology”.  Board Certified.

Oscar and The Rant

Posted in Oscars Blog at 9:31 am by Oscar

Hi — Oscar here,

Just want to give you fair notice.  My person (the doctor) is about to launch a rant against mistreatment of cosmetic clients in the Delaware Valley.  He was fuming about it this morning — tried to calm him down — but when he gets irate about how others are mistreated nothing will stop him.

Yeah, he’s usually warm and fuzzy (not as fuzzy as I am) but he really does have your best interests at heart.

Keep an eye out for it!

Time to watch my birds and bark at them through the window.

Keep ‘em in line, ya know.

Later,

Oscar

“Trout Tickling” and the Doctor

Posted in Oscars Blog at 5:11 am by Oscar

Oscar here,

Yep — it’s true.  My person (the doctor) “tickled trout”.  Clearly, you need an explanation.

Recall he grew up in rural Canada.  ”Rural” here means a little farther drive to the Mall. “Rural” in those days in Canada meant … nowhere to go … nothing to do … unless you were self-creative and happy with what you created.

The other thing you need to know is Canadian boys often were quite taken with North American Indian culture and devoured all they could learn — especially survival techniques (all cool stuff).

My person would leave the house before dawn and be ‘gone’ all day.  His parents’ only admonition was to be back in time for supper. So what in the world was he up to?

Exploring the fields, forest (Canadians call that “the bush”), and wild trout streams. If he wasn’t tapping sugar maples for sap to make maple syrup in the spring he went fishing a lot … but that wasn’t enough — he had to do it the hard (read “Indian”) way.

He “tickled” them.

He would spot a trout behind a rock in the stream in the Big Meadow full of clusters of milkweed (where days before he collected Monarch butterfly chrysalises for his terrarium to wait for their emergence) … and then sneak up on it … until finally, flat on his belly, he would ease his arm — palm up — into the water, imperceptibly moving his hand on the pebbly stream bed closer and closer to the trout finning away behind the rock.

Finally, his hand would be under the trout and gently he’d start stroking its belly with his fingers, gradually mesmerizing the fish until it settled into his hand.

Then all hell would break loose.  

In one swift motion he’d golf the fish out of the water onto the bank.  He’d then take a picture of the flopping fish … pick it up and hold it gently (head into the current so water would flow through it’s gills and give it oxygen) and when the trout was fully aware of its surroundings it would swim away … no doubt wondering in its fishy way what the heck just happened.

The whole exercise was simply to nail one more thing he’d read was a way Indians fished — enough for him.

It’s how he taught himself patience.

What’s this got to do with cosmetic medicine?

Absolutely nothing!  Just thought you’d like to know who your doctor really is and what he did when he was a boy. :)

Now, all this talk about fish has made me hungry — gotta go check out my bowl.

Later,

Oscar


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