A short transcript of Robert Whitfield MD discussing the importance of addressing hormonal imbalances and personal introspection alongside surgical breast procedures. Whitfield emphasizes that surgery alone cannot resolve broader health or emotional issues, and that patients who prepare mentally and work on underlying problems recover and adapt better after surgery.
Are you experiencing, you know, a lot of hormonal imbalance? Like, if you start to unravel all the things that can contribute to why somebody feels as bad as they may feel, then and only then, I think we make a substantial impact on them, you know, personally. Because me doing surgery is not going to solve all your other problems. I know that.
So I don't, you know, I don't spend any time patting myself on the back that I'm going to solve all this with a case. You can't just give us a pill and everything's better. Why not? Come on, now. No, I know better than that.
Especially this case. This is a tough one, as you already can. Can share with patients. So you. To Jessica's credit, she's not saying the, you know, the quiet part out loud and that she spent a lot of time working on herself before she showed up to my clinic and my team to then go through a surgical procedure. And the more time maybe you spent, you know, working introspectively and trying to get things in order, you know, that helps you then in the period after surgery and in the period where you're recovering, be better positioned, you know, mentally, you know, emotionally, to just to handle the change, because it is a big change, obviously.
