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Is Plastic Surgery for You? A Personal Choice
November 18, 2009 3:06 PM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
It must just be human nature, this tendency to judge other people's motives and decisions. Certainly, it is defensible when the actions of others affect might us, but there seems to be no end of interest in who has had plastic surgery, or who might, and Read More...
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Cold and Flu Season: Got Wine?
October 28, 2009 12:19 PM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
By all accounts, the coming flu season is going to be a doozy unless we all get our H1N1 vaccination soon. There's always the plain old cold too of course. I can never remember whether we are supposed to starve a cold and feed a fever or the other way Read More...
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Giving Credit Where Accreditation is Due: Safe Surgery Facilities
October 1, 2009 1:28 PM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
Patients often spend enormous efforts to find the right surgeon, but may give little thought to where the surgery is to be done. Complications can occur for a variety of reasons, and whenever there is a high-profile disaster, such as the death of rapper Read More...
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How To Keep Your Plastic Surgery Discreet
September 10, 2009 3:58 PM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
People are more open about having "a little work done" than they used to be, no doubt about it. But there are still those who feel the need to share only with friends and co-workers on their own terms and not have it broadcasted through the gossip grapevine. Read More...
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Bogus Botox? Know your injector.
August 27, 2009 5:38 PM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
Sometimes smart people make choices they come to regret. That is the case with a patient I have been treating for about the past year and a half, after she received injections of what she was told was Restylane by an esthetician at a local beauty salon. Read More...
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Mind Over Matter: the Placebo Effect
August 20, 2009 10:36 AM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
Not long ago I was doing an interview with a reporter on a story about anti-aging supplements, and she said something that caught me by surprise. Her question was: Why do some people swear by things that science hasn't proven to work? Isn't the fact that Read More...
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Be Skeptical of Procedures That Promise Pain-free, Zero-down time benefits
August 3, 2009 7:06 PM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
Let's face it, surgery is scary for most people, and "going under the knife" is a proposition most sensible folks would decline if a suitable alternative exists. Anesthesia adds to the scare factor, even more than the surgery itself for some, even though Read More...
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Medical Tourism: A Tour and a Tuck?
July 28, 2009 12:29 PM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
As health insurance becomes increasingly expensive and difficult to obtain, Americans are following the outsourcing trend and going overseas in growing numbers for medical procedures. For years, America was the destination for royalty and the well-to-do Read More...
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Is Botox the new Lipstick?
July 15, 2009 10:37 AM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
Former Estee Lauder chairman Leonard Lauder is credited with coining the phrase “lipstick effect” to describe the seeming paradoxical rise in lipstick sales during the great depression of the 1930s. This has reportedly held true for every economic downturn Read More...
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Supplements: Tell Your Doctor
June 25, 2009 10:00 AM by Richard A. Baxter, MD
It always surprises me that so many people are taking herbal and homeopathic supplements but don't think of them as medicines. Perhaps it is the type of people I see in a cosmetic surgery practice; a 2005 study in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Read More...
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