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Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

782: Resilience, Business Mastery, and the Future of Aesthetic Longevity with Dr. Felix Bertram

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Business, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Arts, Management & Marketing, Medicine

4.9608 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Join me for an inspiring conversation with Dr. Felix Bertram, a Swiss dermatologist and entrepreneur who turned a near-fatal motorcycle accident at age 19 into a driving force for resilience and success . We dive deep into the business of aesthetics, where Felix explains why he built the Skinmed brand rather than a personal clinic to allow for true scaling and why practices must avoid the "squeezed middle"—either staying small and profitable or scaling large enough for C-level infrastructure . We also explore the shifting trends in Europe, specifically "filler fatigue" and the pivot toward biostimulation, and discuss the gender divide in longevity, where men prioritize performance while women focus on hormonal health .


Guest Information: Dr. Felix Bertram is the founder of Skinmed and a serial entrepreneur. You can find him on Instagram @drfelixbertram and learn more about his clinics at skinmed.ch.

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0:00.0

Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and today's podcast is going to be amazing.

0:23.5

We are going to interview Dr. Felix Bertram.

0:25.9

He's a Swiss board certified dermatologist, serial entrepreneur, and speaker.

0:31.4

He founded Skin Med.

0:32.7

It's one of Switzerland's fastest growing and largest aesthetic clinics.

0:38.2

And he has five locations, 140 employees.

0:41.6

He does thousands of procedures there.

0:44.2

He also has a skincare line.

0:46.5

He runs the inner circle, a transformative event for aesthetic professionals.

0:51.8

And he's an investor on Switzerland's kind of shark tank, which we'll talk about.

0:57.3

And he also has a restaurant that's earned two Michelin Stars.

1:00.8

I'm coming to try that for sure.

1:03.9

He has such an amazing, interesting life story.

1:08.0

He survived a near-fatal motorcycle accident. He was in a coma. He lost a leg. He's

1:13.8

been channeling all of this into resilience. And really, it impuses everything he does. I think that

1:21.5

that's what makes him so interesting and exciting. He's very relatable. And he's on the cutting edge

1:26.5

of what we're doing in aesthetics. Welcome to the felix thank you for the lovely introduction and uh thanks

1:33.0

for having me on the show of course well i want to dive right in i did not know until i read your

1:38.8

bio that you were in a near fatal motorcycle accident how many years ago is that and how did you

1:43.6

overcome so much health problems and being in a car?

1:48.8

For gosh sakes.

1:50.7

Yeah, it's 30 years ago.

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