MyFamilyGP is a women-led private practice in Sea Point, Cape Town. We are the place where you do not have to manage how your doctor will react before describing your symptom.
MyFamilyGP was founded by the esteemed Dr Sid Kiel and Dr Maurice Silbert and has been part of the Sea Point community since the 1960s. Dr Anastacia Tomson and Dr Orit Laskov took over practice ownership in 2023, having both worked under Dr Leon Geffen's leadership for several years. That is six-plus decades of patients we have come to know — their families, their histories, their patterns — and of a practice that has deepened alongside the community it serves.
We trade as MyFamilyGP under the registered practice of Drs Tomson, Laskov & Associates. We have two full-time partners and two part-time doctors, and we have deliberately stayed at a size where every patient is known to the people who care for them.
Anastacia and Orit built their practice around a straightforward idea: that good healthcare happens when a doctor actually knows you. Not your file — you. Your circumstances, your fears, the things you have put off and why, the ways previous doctors have let you down.
Our doctors value the art of medicine equally to its science. Listening properly, sitting with uncertainty, treating the person rather than the chart — these are not soft skills, they are part of the work. The science gives us evidence and guidelines; the art is how we apply them to the specific person sitting across from us.
For many of our patients, the experience of healthcare has been complicated by who they are — their identity, their body, their community, or their history with the medical system. We built this practice to be different in a specific and practical way: to be the place where you do not have to manage how we will react before you can describe your symptom. Since Dr Tomson joined the practice in 2019, we have offered dedicated LGBTQIA+ and gender-affirming care.
That is not a marketing line. It shapes what questions we ask, how long we book appointments, who we trained with, and what guidelines we helped write.
Both practice owners are women. The culture of the practice — how we listen, what we notice, how we respond — reflects that. It matters more than it might sound.
Dr Tomson co-authored South Africa's first clinical guideline on gender-affirming hormone therapy. That kind of expertise does not usually live in a neighbourhood general practice. It does here.
You will see Dr Tomson or Dr Laskov — or one of our part-time doctors, Dr Dorfman or Dr Abbas — but you will always know who you are seeing and they will always know who you are. We do not use locums to fill our chairs.
We book consultations long enough to hear the full picture. If you need more time, we will tell you upfront and book it.
Inclusive care at MyFamilyGP is not a policy — it is a clinical methodology. Our doctors are trained in the areas where many practices have gaps: gender-affirming medicine, LGBTQIA+ health, and the specific vulnerabilities of patients who have been harmed by healthcare before.
Dr Anastacia Tomson and Dr Orit Laskov are the directing partners of MyFamilyGP. Drs Dion Dorfman and Mumtaz Abbas practise part-time at the practice, each bringing their own depth and warmth to the patients they see.
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We are always happy to welcome new patients. You do not need a referral to book. If you are not sure whether we are the right fit, give us a call on 021 439 6060 or email info@myfamily.gp — we will be honest with you about what we can help with and what we cannot.