Physicians Find Aesthetic Medicine a Cure to Cash Crunch

Doctors are learning the business of aesthetic medicine in an effort to make their practices more financially viable.

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) July 11, 2007 — Family doctors are adding aesthetic medical procedures to their practices in an effort to make their practices more financially viable, says the International Association for Physicians in Aesthetic Medicine (IAPAM). After reviewing participant feedback from their fifth consecutive, sold out Aesthetic Medicine Symposium, IAPAM Executive Director, Jeff Russell, says that participating doctors want most to learn the business of aesthetic medicine, not just how to do the procedures themselves.

“The combination of reducing reimbursements, increasing costs, and longer working hours is leaving many family physicians no choice but to leave their traditional practice behind and open an aesthetic medicine practice or add aesthetic medicine procedures to their existing practices,” says Russell. Read more