Dr Natasha Chapman is a general practitioner specialising in aesthetics.  She completed her MBChB at the University of Stellenbosch, and worked as a GP in Cape Town before relocating to the UK with her family.  Here, she worked at the world-renowned Priory Hospital, which specialises in psychiatric illnesses, eating disorders, and addictions.  She trained in aesthetics in London, and joined an aesthetic practice in Surrey.  After moving back to South Africa in 2007, she joined a very busy practice in Johannesburg and has been doing aesthetics ever since then.

“People often ask me why I chose this field of medicine.  After the horrors of being involved in the prison services, I decided that I wanted to have a career that made me feel good.  I am passionate about what I do.  My job is to make people feel better about themselves and what could be more rewarding than that? I often see patients that have had some trauma in their life, or have recently had cancer or have gotten divorced.  They come and see me hoping that I can help remove some of the ravages that life has left on their faces or because they feel they have let themselves go.  Coming to see an aesthetic practitioner is the first step in taking back control of their lives.  If I can help them feel a little bit better they go home feeling good and I go home feeling fulfilled. I think I have the best job in the world!”

“It’s very exciting to be involved in the aesthetic field of medicine.  It must be one of the most rapidly changing fields in medicine and there are constantly new advances, techniques and products being introduced.”