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  All too often the "bean counters" are telling us how we are falling short. They come up with some scheme to get us to see more patients than we can reasonably see or how to "create" more procedures than are called for. This is bottom-line or practice-centered medicine and in my opinion is unethical and immoral. It is also outside of what we are called to do and is unnecessary and counter to a healthy practice. What I believe builds a healthy practice and is simply at the heart of doing what is right for patients, is the patient-centered consult. This type of consult is designed to get to the root of the patient's issues and do all one can do to help them achieve their health and aesthetic goals. In this age of population-based medicine we have all been told to do the minimum, but that doesn't change the fact that our patients are concerned with optimal health and results. Olympic athletes do not win their contests by training to the minimum nor will our pa