Insider Lens.
Commentary on what is happening in aesthetic medicine. What is arriving in the region, what is being oversold, and what to be sceptical of.
Insider Lens
Why I stopped waiving the consultation fee
A reflection on what happens to a doctor's judgement when the diagnosis is free by default.
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Partial to your diagnosis. Not to a brand.
Every doctor has preferred tools. The question is whether those preferences serve you.
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The quiet we kept: the incentives that decide what your doctor recommends
A practitioner's account of the supply chain that quietly shapes aesthetic recommendations, and the silence most doctors keep about it.
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The quiet law that changed who may switch on a laser in Malaysia
Malaysia's Medical Device Order 2026 took effect 1 June. What it covers, what changed for laser and HIFU, and the one question to ask before your next treatment.
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The trips that capture good doctors, and how I know
I have been on the trips device companies run for doctors. How sponsored education captures good clinicians, and four signals that tell training from incentive.
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Why I post
A senior colleague said posting is beneath the profession. He may be right. The argument for why a qualified doctor should be in the feed anyway.
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Some patients do not need a treatment
The hardest part of a good consultation: telling a patient she does not need what she came in for. Why a clinic that can afford to say no is the one to trust.
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What a before-and-after does not show you
The five photographic decisions behind every aesthetic before-and-after, the selection bias the carousel never mentions, and one question to ask before booking.
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