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Colorado Springs Medical Spa Offers Top Rated Skin Rejuvenation Services
Skin & Body Rejuvenation
BY PAM BALES, Senior Writer, NORTH Magazine
A Colorado native who always wanted to be a doctor, now Dr. Rachel Degurse is a family practice physician and co-owner of Pearl Skin & Body Rejuvenation – a two-year-old Colorado medical spa. “I know, people are often very curious about ‘the why’ of our business,” notes Dr. Degurse. She runs the medical spa with her husband, Travis, an IT professional who is learning a whole new set of skills as the company’s COO.
The “why” is simple for Dr. Degurse. She cares about her patients and has always been passionate about the patient-doctor relationship, which she feels has declined in the past decade. The greater demands on physicians’ time increasingly took away from time with patients, and the patient-physician relationship, according to Dr. Degurse.
“I wanted to start a business where I could reestablish that relationship and take control of my time. I also noticed in my practice increasing patient frustrations with their health, that I did not have the time or resources to address in corporate medicine,” she says. “I’m a life-long learner and medical spa technology has evolved; I found myself wanting to take my medical expertise into an area that is often extremely unregulated.”
Each state has different rules, regulations and requirements for who can administer treatments and services, explains Travis. “It’s kind of like the wild, wild west in Wyoming and Colorado. There aren’t a lot of medical spas who have the doctor doing the more complicated work,” he says. “Some med spas have a physician ‘associated’ with the group, but they aren’t even at the facility on a regular basis. Clients really do need to do their due diligence about who is supplying your services.”
After graduating as valedictorian from high school, Degurse pursued a degree in biology at Colorado College, received her medical degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine and finished her residency at University of South Carolina in Columbia. With more than 13 years of invaluable expertise in her field, Dr. Degurse strives to empower individuals on their journey of evolution and transformation through Pearl Skin & Body Rejuvenation.
“It’s just so different now than even a couple of decades ago, where there was a lot of cutting; people had to take a month off to recover and the like,” explains Travis. “In addition to tech and operations, it’s my job to educate the public about the options that are now available and how much it really does create a sense of wellbeing and confidence, for women and men.”
“We were worried that this would be a highly competitive industry,” says Travis. “We were pleasantly surprised to find that it is more collaborative than competitive. We’ve had some help from other companies and amazing conferences. It’s great!”
The couple gracefully balances working together, parenting together and being entrepreneurs together. “Most of the time, we do well,” laughs Dr. Degurse. “And Travis has amazing skin now…he’s often my test subject!”
For more information about the services offered
at Pearl Skin & Body Rejuvenation,
visit pearlskinbody.com, email contact@pearlskinbody.com or call 719-249.4210
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