Aesthetic medicine during COVID-19: Patient perspectives and motivations amidst a pandemic.

There have been immense worldwide changes to life and the practice of medicine and dermatology in the last few months due to the COVID-19 pandemic1,2 . In March 2020 there was mandated closure of all non-essential services in British Columbia, Canada in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic3 . As per the local regulatory public health authorities, Humphrey Cosmetic Dermatology closed to patients for 8 weeks.