Akihiko Ozaki, M.D., Ph.D. Physician at the Medical Governance Research Institute To explain it again, "Chokubi" is a term for doctors who go "straight" or “direct” ( choku ) into aesthetic medicine ( bi ) immediately after finishing their initial clinical residency, without first passing through a university medical department or a general hospital. Reports last year indicated that several hundred doctors annually are choosing this path. I (the author) have been interested i