Tipping on Botox

[badgergrl]

When you get Botox done by an MD do you tip?

[icedcoffee]

I've never gotten Botox, but tipping an MD (in one of the most lucrative specialties) seems insane to me.

#nothelpful

[Leeham Rimes]

Would you tip a plastic surgeon for a facelift?

[badgergrl]

I think it’s nuts too but I just don’t want to be that person who doesn’t tip. I did the first time (nurse) because I didn’t know. But it’s like $400 so 20% is a lot.

[devonpow]

No way

[calle28]

Oh, come on!!

Would you tip after a pap smear?!

[latte]

Hell no am I tipping for Botox. Tipping culture is out of control because that’s crazy to me.

[gastro]

No. I love my dermatologist and her work but I never tip her or her nurse. I’ve given nice bottles of wine around the holidays. I’m pretty sure neither would accept a tip if someone tried to give them one.

[badgergrl]

I asked and the nurse said they appreciate the tips. THe whole
Thing made me uncomfortable Which is why I am trying out a new place. I appreciate the clear conscious I will have not tipping after my next appointment.

[goldengirlz]

I’ve never thought to tip.

That would be so awkward!

[bronxgirl]

Sept 17, 2018 13:24:08 GMT -5 badgergrl said:

I asked and the nurse said they appreciate the tips. THe whole
Thing made me uncomfortable Which is why I am trying out a new place. I appreciate the clear conscious I will have not tipping after my next appointment.

I wonder what her licensing body would have to say about that. Good luck at the new place.

[Leeham Rimes]

Sept 17, 2018 13:24:08 GMT -5 badgergrl said:

I asked and the nurse said they appreciate the tips. THe whole
Thing made me uncomfortable Which is why I am trying out a new place. I appreciate the clear conscious I will have not tipping after my next appointment.

 Is it a spa with doctors or a doctor's office? I'm honestly appalled regardless but I have seen "med spas" advertise botox.

[wildrice]

If it was at a spa or aesthetician sort of place I might. Don't some beauty salons offer services from someone who has been trained to do this, but isn't necessarily a medical professional? I could be totally off base here (never looked into it) but I think a salon one of my friends used to work at offered these sorts of services. She didn't perform them, but I didn't think it was a doctor that did, either.

If it's a doctor or nurse doing it, definitely not. I would assume they have policies against that. Anywhere I have worked as a professional there are rules about accepting cash gifts and/or gifts over a certain amount.

[brewco]

I work in a Derm office with a med spa- botox is ALWAYS done by the MD or DO and never administered in our office by a nurse. The assistant is usually an esthetician or a nurse, but the physician is always the one injecting. No one in our office is allowed to accept tips, ever, for any service.

[sunflower17]

I’m going this week for the first time (eeek!! I’m excited and nervous) —it would never occur to me to tip a medical professional. I work in healthcare and this is against policy.

[badgergrl]

Sept 17, 2018 14:47:55 GMT -5 Leeham Rimes said:

Sept 17, 2018 13:24:08 GMT -5 badgergrl said:

I asked and the nurse said they appreciate the tips. THe whole
Thing made me uncomfortable Which is why I am trying out a new place. I appreciate the clear conscious I will have not tipping after my next appointment.

 Is it a spa with doctors or a doctor's office? I'm honestly appalled regardless but I have seen "med spas" advertise botox.

It was a med spa. The new place is a drs office.

[starburst604]

NO NO NO. I work for doctors who also do Botox - I can't imagine the awkwardness if someone tried tipping them. Now I wonder if anyone has ever tried.

[pantsparty]

Sept 17, 2018 13:14:21 GMT -5 calle28 said:

Oh, come on!!

Would you tip after a pap smear?!

"Your work with the speculum was...inspired." ::slides over $20::

[doctoranda]

I never have (neither at a MD or med spa). I went to a med spa the last time and asked whether people usually tip on Botox and they said "NO".

[eb777888]

Sept 17, 2018 16:01:22 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

Sept 17, 2018 13:14:21 GMT -5 calle28 said:

Oh, come on!!

Would you tip after a pap smear?!

"Your work with the speculum was...inspired." ::slides over $20::

🤣🤣🤣

[goldengirlz]

My doctor technically calls his practice a medspa but it’s still more of a medical practice than a spa. The spa part is that they serve you tea and play relaxing music and you can book a facial with the doctor’s husband.

But otherwise everyone who works there is a medical professional. I would never think to tip.

[flex]

Heck no!