09/08/2026
It’s not always plain sailing.
The majority of my job is celebrating beautiful results, watching people get their spark back and helping restore confidence that may have been lost.
But sometimes, things don’t go to plan.
Medicine is not an exact science. Even with a thorough assessment, clinical knowledge, expertise and sound clinical decision-making, the human body can still be unpredictable. Our bodies can do things we simply didn’t anticipate.
I was taught from day one:
“If you’ve never had a complaint or a complication, you simply haven’t treated enough patients.”
And whilst complication rates in aesthetics are generally low, the law of averages tells us that when you treat enough people, eventually you will encounter something that doesn’t go quite as expected.
What matters is what happens next.
Recognising when something isn’t right.
Knowing how to assess it.
Understanding when to treat, when to monitor, when to medicate and when to refer.
Having the knowledge and experience to manage the situation safely.
This is the part of aesthetic medicine that you don’t always see on Instagram.
Complications can sometimes be paraded around for likes and views, with the narrative becoming about a “villain practitioner” who caused the problem and the practitioner who swooped in to save the day.
But complications can happen to anyone. Simple.
That doesn’t mean we should hide them. Quite the opposite.
We should be able to talk about complications openly and without shame — not to point fingers or create fear, but to educate, increase awareness and remind people that these are medical procedures performed on human beings, not predictable beauty treatments with guaranteed outcomes.
The before and afters are important — but so is everything that happens when things don’t go according to plan.
I am, and always will be, a nurse first.
Caring for people is what I do.
Medicine is what I know.
Science is what I trust.