Below is something I shared with a person who wrote me regarding finding a plastic surgeon to buy a practice. \u00a0I thought I’d just share what I wrote in this blog – not sure if it’s helpful for others or may give others some ideas – or perhaps you can contact that person for plastic surgery recruitment purposes. \u00a0In my attempt to help and share, here’s the text of my email:<\/p>\n
—–<\/span><\/p>\n Lois,<\/p>\n Thanks for making contact. \u00a0I’ve been in the plastic surgery “business” with my wife for about 7+ years at this point. \u00a0I’m not sure this makes me any sort of expert, but I’m willing to try to answer your question and help.<\/p>\n I know a plastic surgeon who was thinking about selling his cosmetic plastic surgery practice in Walnut Creek. He had sent us a letter with his intent to sell his practice. But it looks like you’re looking for a surgeon who wants to buy a practice. We just mailed just about all the plastic surgeons in California because we’re trying to get them to consider a Medical Malpractice Company<\/a>: www.capphysicians.com<\/a><\/p>\n My thoughts on places:<\/p>\n 1. Kaiser – plastic surgeons who might want to see what’s “out there” The reason plastic surgeons would want to buy another practice is to get a foothold on Cosmetic surgeries. There’s a life cycle \/ phases of a plastic surgeon’s life. It usually starts with reconstructive surgery then moves on to cosmetic surgeries. So by buying another person’s practice, one would get a better footing (faster too) into cosmetic surgery.<\/p>\n With insurances getting stranger and stranger these days – I think more plastic surgeons would want to move over to a cosmetic focused practice. However, that being said, I know a bunch of plastic surgeons who love reconstructive surgery and dislike cosmetics.<\/p>\n Buying a cosmetic\/plastic surgery practice, in my mind, is beneficial for buying the building, location, equipment, furniture, instruments, and perhaps reputation and possibly repeat patients if the new surgeon is introduced.<\/p>\n Also from what I’ve seen, most plastic surgeons like to slowly grow their own practices; thus the era of buying medical practices is slowly going away. But I still definitely see the value of a seasoned surgeon mentoring a younger surgeon and introducing that person into the environment.<\/p>\n When I was about to leave my previous general surgery practice in Modesto, CA, I was given an opportunity to join a well established general surgeon in Orange County, California. And with reimbursement arrangements, it would be similar to “buying” a practice. – Calvin Lee<\/p>\n <\/p>\n —–Original Message—– Dr. Lee,<\/p>\n I just now read your blog and was facinated by the content. I think it is wonderful that you took the time to impart this information to others.<\/p>\n I am a medical Practice Administrator and Physician Recruiter. I love what I do and I live in Medford, Oregon. I recently left my position as the Administrator of a three site Retina practice and am doing strictly MD recruitment. Could you give me a few pointers on the best places to look for a Plastic Surgeon seeking to buy a well established practice? I am on a mission because I need to fill this position by July 2014.<\/p>\n Any assistance or guidance you could share would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n Thank you very much!<\/p>\n Lois Shanks Below is something I shared with a person who wrote me regarding finding a plastic surgeon to buy a practice. \u00a0I thought I’d just share what I wrote in this blog – not sure if it’s helpful for others or may give others some ideas – or perhaps you can contact that person for plastic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Sutter Plastic Surgeons – who also might want to explore new avenues.
\n3. Beverly Hills plastic surgeons – so competitive there – they might want to buy another practice.
\n4. Plastic Surgeons graduating from residency (ie. Stanford Univ.) – they might have rich relatives?<\/p>\n
\nGood luck to you! Let me know how it goes.<\/p>\n
\nFrom: Lois Shanks [mailto:lois@lifelinecomputersolutions.com]
\nSent: Fri 11\/15\/2013 12:02 PM
\nTo: Calvin Lee
\nCc: lshanks@charter.net
\nSubject: MD Recruitment<\/p>\n
\nMD Recruiter
\nLshanks@charter.net<mailto:Lshanks@charter.net>
\nLShanks@Loisshanks.com<mailto:LShanks@Loisshanks.com><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"