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Issue: #2 January, 2009
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                                                              Doc and the Skin Wizards
 
PRICE AND/OR QUALITY
Doc injecting                It's really your call...
We are all, of course, aware of the constraints the economy has placed on our lives and I know, from personal experience, how unsettling it is to change doctors.  I would, if possible, like to spare my patients that difficult decision.  If you have received a consultation, a written proposal, and a lower price quote from another doctor, I would appreciate the opportunity of speaking with you by phone or at the office and meeting that price.
 
I recently become aware of several patients who had been gone for some time being treated at one of the other cosmetic dermatologists in the area.  In each case they were attracted by the lure of extra-special prices and too-good-to-be-true two-for-one offers.  In many cases the advertising was misleading.  The actual prices paid were much higher.
 
In every case, the patient was disappointed in the care they received at the other offices and happy to be back.  I would like to tell you I was not bothered but that would not be true. 
 
In my own life I have always sought quality over price whether as a consumer or as a provider.  Knowing you saved some money is scant consolation when you are not satisfied with what you purchased.  That is twice as pertinent when what you see in the mirror every day is not what you would like to be seeing. 
 
Think of us as your neighborhood skin health experts.  We have a treatment to fit every budget.  I invite you to call the office for details.
 
FOCUS GROUP
Focus Group
What are your thoughts on what we do?
We recently held a focus group at the office in an attempt to discern the factors that go into the decisions we make to seek non-invasive aesthetic medical treatments. 
 
My sense is that the majority of our patients would forego many of the "luxuries" of their life rather than give up their aesthetic maintenance treatments.  A patient leaving the office the other day told us she would not hesitate to give up going out to dinner and her daily Starbuck's fix but that she would never give up her bi-monthly skin treatments at our medical spa.  "It's something I do for my head as much for my skin," she said.
 
That in itself was not surprising.  What was surprising was the almost universal rejection of plastic surgery as a path to improving appearance.  I heard everything from "when it's done, it's done," to "you're really taking a chance that you're going to like how it turns out." 
 
            We expect to have another group in mid-February and we will let you know well in advance.
 
 
SPECIALS
Valentine's Day
Super Medical and Skin Spa Offers
For VALENTINE'S DAY we are offering a Sweetheart of a Deal with Agua Serena Spa.  Get Doc's Signature Anti-Aging Skin Treatment with Dermal Planing and Agua Serena Spa's 50 minute Signature Massage for only $200.  This is a saving of $45.  Buy two for $370 and save even more!
 
BOTOX®.  We are still running our $10 per unit BOTOX special and will continue it for at least two more weeks.  And until the end of February, Allergan is offering a $50 rebate.
 
            RADIESSE®, JUVEDERM™, AND SKIN TREATMENTS.  Through the end of February we are offering a $120 Signature Anti-aging Skin Treatment complimentary for anyone who purchases two syringes of either dermal filler.  If you purchase two syringes of Juvederm you receive a $100 rebate on the second syringe.
 
            And don't forget our NO FUSS FLASH FACIAL.  A 30 minute basic dermal planing skin treatment for only $60.
 
THE LAST WORD...
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding one's self in the ranks of the insane."
 
                                              Emperor Marcus Aurelius 121-180 A.D.
 
The Medical and Skin Spa is a state-of-the-art medical skin clinic located within the amazing Agua Serena Spa at Hyatt Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California.  We have treatments to fit every budget and we invite you to call for more information.
 
Sincerely,

Richard Foxx, MD and the Skin Wizards