A physician reflects on past gynecologic surgical practices, acknowledging that some surgeries were performed unnecessarily due to outdated training and systemic problems in medical care. The speaker expresses regret, emphasizes that most doctors care but may be uninformed because of antiquated education, and calls for recognizing the truth and moving forward.
I did surgeries that probably shouldn't have been done because other things were the root cause issue and that was not really going to fix the problem. But once you know better, you do better. And so I'm here with my tail between my legs saying, you know what, I did the best that I could at the time with the information that I had. And I think most gynecologists are, I think most cancer care about you and want you to do well. Obviously there are doctors who are a little bit ego driven, right. And they're more self concerned. But I'm not saying your doctor doesn't care about you. What I'm saying is they might not be informed because they might be trained in antiquated medicine. I know I was practicing the same way doctors were practicing 50 years ago. Not a lot has changed in that sick care broken system. And so all we can do is realize the truth and move forward.
