Making Peace with Social Media in Your Practice
Dr. Kaplan, founder/CEO of BuildMyBod Health recently wrote an article on social media for the benefit of healthcare providers. Many are reluctant to use social media in their practice but Dr. Kaplan explains how they’re missing out on an amazing opportunity to educate their patients. You can listen to the article here, from a very […]
Why would patients agree to be on social media?
Packed into that question of why patients would agree to be on social media is a different question people really want to know. Do doctors incentivize patients to agree to be on social media? In other words, do they give the patient something to get them in front of the camera? Agree to be […]
BuildMyBod founder giving social media course at CSPS Annual Meeting
If you’re in or around Sacramento tomorrow or already attending the California Society of Plastic Surgeons’ (CSPS) Annual Meeting, don’t miss Dr. Kaplan’s 1-hour social media course! But Dr. Kaplan only has 25K followers on Instagram, you say? What makes him an expert worthy of giving a course?! He doesn’t consider himself an expert but […]
Put the swimming bitmoji on the liposuction canister. Wait, what?!

The language spawned by social media is bizarre to say the least. Snaps, posts, likes, tags, giphys, stickers and the almighty bitmoji. We’re not talking about just lingo or coined terms within social media. It’s the combination of lingo with normal everyday speech that make for very strange, surreal conversations. So many bitmoji, so […]
BuildMyBod founder speaking at Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons
Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, founder/CEO of BuildMyBod Health will be speaking this weekend at the 61st Annual Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons – the OVSPS. According to the OVSPS website, “The mission of the OVSPS is to promote innovative technology regarding the art and science of plastic and reconstructive surgery. The target audience will […]
How to ruin a good thing when it comes to social media in the OR

Social media in the OR (operating room) is a wonderful tool for our practice. I recently wrote about the 5 ways social media has transformed my practice here and here. But for every 5 reasons to utilize social media in one’s practice, someone will find one way to ruin it for everyone. Social […]
Social media wake up call for plastic surgery societies
There’s a paradigm shift in how patients are finding their doctors. And nowhere is this more evident than in the cosmetic surgery space. In the past, consumers found their doctor through word of mouth. Then it was the yellow pages. That gave way to the internet, specifically a doctor’s website, and in the last decade, […]
From social media to surgery [video]

As a healthcare provider, if you’re not on social media by now, you should seriously consider it. More patients are going from social media to surgery than ever before. As the story below will show, this is actually a reasonable way to find your doctor. First step: Lead generation As seen in the photo […]