“If you’re a plastic surgeon, you have to look good, you have to look young. Would you go to a cardiologist that’s a smoker and obese and looks like his cholesterol is high and his heart is failing?” asks Dr Alexandra Grubnik, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon from Nip Tuck at the Netcare Milpark Hospital and Netcare Rosebank Hospital. “It’s the same with a plastic surgeon. People want to go to a young, beautiful plastic surgeon.
The medical profession runs in the Grubnik family, with her father, grandfather and uncle being surgeons, though she was the first to specialise in cosmetic surgery. “I get a lot of ladies who say they feel comfortable because I am a woman. I don’t think it’s the same in medicine. Men do come, not a lot – definitely more women,” she says.
“Note, however, that everyone is different and everyone’s motivation is different. Some men come because they’re very much into their training and go to gym every day, and they have a few pockets of exercise-resistant fat and it really bothers them, and so they get rid of them surgically.”“It’s actually intrinsic to women, they want to look good and feel good about themselves.
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