Thursday, November 8, 2007

Moving...

I'm moving this blog to another location.

http://surgicalartistrymindtransfer.blogspot.com/

A junk yard repository.

Jeff Barson

He's the one behind the blogs:

To be honest I have very little confidence that squarespace would live up to my expectations. I've been more than pleasantly surprised. In fact, every site but one (Surface Medical Spas) http://www.surface-med.com/ has been built or switched to squarespace. Here's the list:

Simple Curiosity? - Daily posts to tickle your thinking bone.
Medical Spa MD: Information for physicians in retail medicine.

Nimble Theory: My other business blog about technology startups & angel investing.
Pony tail Club: My daughters blog about her riding academy and horses.
Kid Agent: My sisters site as a child agent in Hollywood.
Fight Club: A networking blog for entrepreneurs. (Since rolled into Nimble Theory)

medical spa md

http://www.medicalspamd.com/ = uses squarespace.com, retail medicine.

http://fightclub.squarespace.com/ for entrepreneurs - same author as above.

The source: http://nimbleit.squarespace.com/the-blog/2007/6/29/review-squarespacecom-vs-wordpress.html

Everyone has a blog - even SEO companies such as Page1solutions

http://page1solutions.squarespace.com/journal/

This is a blog for lawyers who have webpages.
I found this through a google search - looking for page1solutions as the search term. I was really looking for a roster of webpages that they design, so they can eventually help us with ours.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Lipodissolve response

Hi Gabriela, Thank you for visiting our blog.

Dissolving small areas of fat with injection has not had enough research done to back up its claims. It is also not FDA approved. However, we will let our readers know when it meets those standards.

I would like to mention that other procedures, like liposuction, do produce predictable results. And as a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon I would be happy to consult with you personally about various options. If you’d like to set up an appointment please contact my office. We’d love to hear from you.

Source: http://www.casas.md/index.php/blog

Michael Toschi

Does that name mean anything to you? It means shoes to some.

http://www.toschi.com/

Michael Toschi himself came to Modesto, CA to Rossini's Menswear.

Performance Luxury: Comfort, technology, and beauty combined.

They were selling Vecchia Mano - Made by Hand shoes. They say that the shoe can last 20 years. And it will cost you $1600 dollars per pair.

Made in Italy.... so lag time??

Arimidex

ARIMIDEX is approved for adjuvant treatment (treatment following surgery with or without radiation) of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer.

Aromatase is an enzyme that is found in the liver, fat, muscle, and breast cancer cells

In women who are postmenopausal, aromatase changes androgens (hormones produced in the adrenal glands) to the hormone estrogen

Some breast cancer tumors grow when the hormone estrogen is present

ARIMIDEX is a medication called an aromatase inhibitor. ARIMIDEX works by blocking aromatase, therefore reducing the amount of estrogen in the body

Also I've seen patients spell this Arrimidex - sounds like an arrhythmia of sorts?

Nuvaring Birth Control / Nova-ring

Why is this on my mind... a patient brought it up... that's enough said.

NuvaRing® is a different kind of birth control. The comfortable, flexible contraceptive ring that is about two inches in diameter is used to prevent pregnancy. You insert NuvaRing® into the vagina just once a month. The muscles in your vaginal wall will keep NuvaRing® in place for three weeks. During that time, it will slowly release a low dose of hormones that are needed to prevent pregnancy.

When 21 days are completed, simply remove NuvaRing® to allow your body to have its menstrual cycle. After a seven-day break, you will insert a new ring to continue to be protected against pregnancy.

How does it work?

NuvaRing® contains two types of hormones, estrogen and progestin (just like the pill), that prevent your ovaries from producing mature eggs. NuvaRing® provides benefits similar to oral contraceptives, but without the daily pill-taking routine.

The hormone release is activated by contact with the vagina. The walls of your vagina absorb the hormones and distribute them into your bloodstream. Because of this method of administration you get 99% effectiveness (when used as directed) with a low dose of hormones.
NuvaRing® provides low and steady hormone delivery. This steady, consistent release means NuvaRing® has fewer hormonal ups and downs than daily or weekly birth control methods.

I have seen some of the patient spell this Novaring

There's nothing we haven't seen

35,000 physicians are on this somehow. It is a physician only community.... Not sure what this is about (yet) They offer a $15 amazon gift card. the promotion is to type MDCOMMUNITY into the promotion box.

Is this free?

www.sermo.com

Addicus Books

I got something in the mail personally from www.addicusbooks.com
They are looking for plastic surgeons to publish some topics.

Publish / Write your own book

Oprah says,

Last Christmas, a woman in Texas gave everyone in the family her recipes bound into a book as beautiful as any of Emeril's. At a college reunion in California, 100 alumni received a book called That Was Then, This Is Now: Essays by the Class of 1992. And when her twins turned 21, a mother in Florida gave them each a volume she'd been writing since their birth: To My Daughters. Although self-publishing has been around for a long time, Print on Demand (POD) technology has made it much simpler and cheaper to create books that look as professional as any you'd find in Barnes & Noble. How It WorksYou send your text in a word processing program to an online POD company; they design the book and print as many copies as you want, as often as you want. Getting printer-ready can cost as little as $199, with each copy setting you back another $5 to $12. If you're willing to part with more money, you can also publish your own full-color picture book or comic book, photo album or art portfolio (xlibris.com offers a package that starts at $999). A Few CaveatsThe less-reputable firms skimp on paper stock and production values—so ask to see a sample before you sign the contract. And watch out for extras: Most companies will try to sell you additional services, such as proofreading and marketing—but publishing pros feel the latter aren't very effective. Selling Your BookIf you want to sell your books, pick a POD company that has an online store and will list you on Amazon.com's and Barnes & Noble's websites; and invest in a book or course on Internet marketing. A few industrious writers have sold as many as 5,000 copies this way—but they're the exception. To become a best-selling or prizewinning author, you'll need to find an agent and a traditional publisher. But for a lot of people who have always had a book in them, POD is a digital dream come true. Some of the Best-established POD Companies
www.xlibris.com
www.iuniverse.com
www.booklocker.com
www.enovel.com
www.ebookstand.com

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

When to replace breast implants if there had been no complications?

My personal philosophy on this issue is the following:

If someone has had breast implants for a long time (does not matter how long > 10 years), and they are perfectly happy with the results of the surgery, and they do not have any complications, I tell these patients to leave them alone. The implants are safe and durable. Who is to say that the next set of implants that they get will not spontaneously leak or break within1 year, 5 years, or 9 years, in which case they may need to have them replaced again. They may also develop complications from an unnecessary surgery, and it is worthwhile to weigh the risks and benefits.


However, if someone wants to always have a warranty on their implants, then they would have to replace it every 10 years, as the warranty runs out at the end of the 10th year.

If someone has complications, breast pain, abnormal shape, or capsular contracture, then regardless of how long after the implantation, I would recommend a formal evaluation. After the evaluation, then I will make my recommendations as to what course of action to take.

Rare Web Pages

http://www.surgerytoday.com/plasticsurgeryessay/
http://www.surgerytoday.com/restylane_modesto.htm http://www.thinkstrings.com
http://www.wuplasticsurgery.com
http://www.surgerytoday.com/controlledsubstances/

These are some rarer web pages.... I haven't worked on these much at all.

This is truly a musing...

Paid some bills

How come bills are always higher and higher? They keep going up. That must be some rule of nature or something. The electricity here is about 400 bucks. The phone lines are about 400 bucks.

Wow. Well, the accounts are about $2000 bucks per year - this sounds like a good deal considering how much we pay in just utilities and phone lines.

Soi Candles.

Soy Candles
· Support local business: These candles are hand made by a company (The Soi Company) who has ties to Modesto and Walnut Creek, California. And we are an official partner vendor of Soi Candles.
· Better for your health and environment: Clean, soot-free burning. These candles are dye free as well. Soy is a renewable vegetable resource, unlike paraffin which is a petroleum product.
· Safer: Melted soy is at a cooler—lower temperature than melted paraffin wax. Thus safer for small hands.
· Good for your skin: Melted soy can be used as a skin moisturizer—yes you can dip into the pool of melted wax, just be careful of the buring flame.
· More value: Soy candles burn 40% longer than regular wax candles

Sushi Gardens

sushi Gardens.... ahhh... that's where we went today. My turn on the bill end.
The 4 of us ate till we couldn't eat anymore. The line there wasn't out the door like the other days and we even got a great parking spot.

After that we sent off some Soi Candles to be sent off as gifts. Tax included, to make the tax man happy.

We sell these soi Candles for about $25 dollars. I wonder if people would appreciate these as gifts. I also wanted if they would be sold well.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Back to work

Now that work is done (finished seeing some patients). I think it's now time to eat.


Hmmm... how about:


I guess the bottom line is... let's see where she wants to eat:


Sunday, November 4, 2007

Kristin Lee, Violinist

Modesto symphony Concert featured 21 year old violinist Kristin Lee. She is currently in her last year at Juilliard. This being her 10th year at Juilliard due to her time spent as a Pre-College student. Her teachers include Dorothy DeLay, Catherine Cho, and Itzhak Perlman.

She played the Mendelssohn violin concert in E minor. She played it well with great musicality. I heard slides that reminded me of Itzhak Perlman - the influence is evident. She had firm control of the of the double stops and octaves in the second movement and full control over her wonderful trills.

During the second movement (of the Saturday performance), there was an audience member who fainted due to medical problems, but she continue to captivate the audience despite the ushers and audience doctors who were trying to help. We hope the woman is ok. The last movement was played lightly and very bird-like, as it was intended in my mind. She had full control of her instrument and didn't seem strained.

Bravo.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Placed www.modestotummytuck.com online

Worked on Modesto Tummy Tuck web page (http://www.modestotummytuck.com) today - first thing in the morning. It uses columns and tables and has space on the right hand column for more pictures.

This is a start and uploaded it.

I also transfered to dreamhost my tummytucktoday webpage (.com)

We'll see how long it takes for google to index it. (and yahoo). and msn.

Friday, November 2, 2007

What did I do today?

I flew back to Modesto... from the East Coast.
That was not without working on http://www.breastguide.com entitled Modesto Breast Augmentation.
I couldn't figure out why the page rank dropped to 2. I believe it was 4 before. But before then the website was dedicated to breast cancer. Must be a judgemental thing in terms of importance by Google.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

breast implant resource, a company?

The company would have several components. The main components being:

  1. Breast implant content - techniques of surgery, complications, faq, types of implants.
  2. Breast implant forum.
  3. Breast implant pictures.
  4. Plastic Surgeon Directory who are certified by the ABPS (American Board of Plastic Surgery)
  5. Making web pages for plastic surgeons, including video feeds.
  6. Helping surgeons track where the advertising comes from (rewarding staff with $5 Starbucks gift certificate each time someone calls)

Where would money be made (our pricing)?

  1. From surgeons who want to be included into the directory with basic web pages ($3000 to sign up for the first year).
  2. Renewal fees ($750 renewal per year).
  3. Advertising on the forum ($?).
  4. Allowing surgeons to put up their before and after pictures ($?).
  5. Making a delux stand alone webpage for the surgeon ($3000)
  6. Renewal of delux stand alone webpage for the surgeon ($750)
  7. SEO for the delux stand alone webpage (included)
  8. emailing newsletters (6 cents per email)

Monday, October 29, 2007

Little pictures of websites: so cute

















































The websites are: http://www.surgerytoday.com/ http://www.bigveins.com/ http://www.breastguide.com/ and http://www.modestosurgery.com/

breastaugmentationresource.com

Well, "breast augmentation" is a search time that is much more popular than "breast implnats" as found on my research on google trends ( trends.google.com )

I registered the website breastaugmentationresource.com not sure what to do with it. Perhaps I'll list a bunch of plastic surgeon websites that I know, just to get started with this web page.

Stockton breast augmentation and plastic surgery

Stockton websites. I've been asked several times about our neighboring city and whether we have added that to our ideas of search engine optimization.

Well... here are our websites for that purpose and to spread the news.

Stockton Plastic Surgery

Stockton Breast Augmentation

They both need a little cosmetic lift.

worthy page rank website - it has DMOZ directory and $ worth

www.smartpagerank.com

Checks from various google data centers.

Today it shows my page rank for http://www.surgerytoday.com at 2 with alexa at 5573336.

Another great website is the wayback machine:

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

comparison of my measly web pages with the national giants loking at things like inlinks.

I had typed the below into an excel spreadsheet but it is not attaching properly, but it still shows the results here.

The impressive one is locateadoc with 1800 inlinks from other domains.


Domain
Pages
Inlinks
Inlinks other domains
Page Rank

Surgerytoday.com
34
158
130
2

Breastguide.com
24
111
104
2

Beyondniptuck.com
5
66
62
2

Newtomodesto.com
17
70
60
2

Breastimplants411.com
21300
5530
285
5

Locateadoc.com
202000
45300
1800
5

Lookingyourbest.com
73300
19900
2330
4

Ebreastaug.com
1870
2130
305
4

SEO from the plastic surgery world

SEO = search engine optimization.

Did I get any new ideas? Not directly for SEO. Mainly they discussed using titles in the webpages that are relevant and also having inlinks. These are well known SEO techniques. Getting the inlinks takes work.

However; I got some great ideas for website building to help traslate viewership into calls into the office. However, these were things I've seen and thought about, but it is always great to get some ideas and hear it from some one else.

Here are the ideas:
1. Add a "Ask Nicole" picture and email entry
2. Collect email through the web pages and offer things like "special offers" and "newsletters."
3. People in our geographic area searching for plastic surgery also search in neighboring areas. So thus someone in the bay area, CA usually would consider advertising in San Francisco, CA

Saturday, October 27, 2007

ASPS GOLD website creation services and hosting plus SEO

I was more drawn toward the internet services being offered to plastic surgeons. I manage the plastic surgery related websites of Surgical Artistry:

Plastic Surgery Modesto
Breast Augmentation Modesto
Tammy Wu Plastic Surgery

I visited a sales person named Martha and she handled the large ASPS booth related to their web services all by herself. It wasn't highly attended. I asked her how much it would cost to design, host and SEO a website. She said they had a Gold package - which included all the above plus the ability to host a video stream. It would cost about $4500 plus $500 per year.

I'm thinking about possibly getting some professional web design done to our pages. I currently design them, but there really isn't much design to them. I tried to do more by using some boxes which breaks up the page and is slightly easier on the eyes.

Here are some non-plastic surgery websites: I offer these as examples of my work. These are restaurants in Modesto. One day, I just felt like write a little about these restaurants. Plus Vito's didn't have a web page (at least not at the time of the web page writing)

Bacchus Modesto - made use of some rectangles, but I must say that my choice of colors are pretty poor
Gallettos Modesto - better use of rectangles and graphics
Vitos Modesto - currently has no use of rectangles/tables - just word processing


I then continued to improve with these webpages - these were blog style writings:

Breast Augmentation Sacramento / Spa Owner
Red Bow Weddings
Natrelle Breast Implants

Anyway, that's it for now...

Plastic Surgery 2007 - Baltimore Conference



I'm at this conference with a ton of plastic surgeons. They're watching videos of each other operating and watching each other inject each other with the latest fillers. What a sight. Today was the first day of this conference. It rained so miserably in the morning, I started missing Modesto, CA. Highlights of today was visiting the ASPS web services booth. ASPS stands for American Society of Plastic Surgeons. More details on the ASPS web services in the next post.

Next year's packing reminders:
  • Bring ear plugs
  • Bring umbrella
  • Bring more to wear because it is so cold in these conference centers

First blog

Believe it or not. This is my first time trying out this blogging program. I thought I would write the "test" blog.