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June 25, 2026· 3 min read

Twenty-Five Years in the ER, Then She Opened a Med Spa

Spotlight on Reddy Aesthetics, Long Beach. Part of a series profiling the people behind California med spas worth knowing about.

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A different kind of training

Most aesthetic injectors come up through aesthetics. Dr. Usha Rani K. Reddy came up through the emergency room — board-certified in Emergency Medicine, with more than twenty-five years in Long Beach and San Pedro ERs. She opened Reddy Aesthetics in 2017 as the cosmetic arm of her Reddy Urgent Care practice.

An ER background changes how a clinician thinks. You learn pain management as a discipline, not an afterthought. You learn to read risk fast and treat it calmly. That is not the usual résumé behind a syringe of filler, and it is exactly the résumé you want when something needs to be handled rather than panicked over.

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The record

The practice carries a 4.9-star average across more than 196 reviews and is rated among the top med spas in Long Beach. The menu is deep — CO2 and Fotona lasers, RF microneedling, PicoSure tattoo removal, IV therapy, weight loss — but the throughline is a physician who spent a career being the person you call when it is serious.

If you want injectables from someone whose instinct under pressure was trained in a trauma bay, this is the listing to read.

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