Dr. Robert Whitfield and a patient discuss health risks from breast implants that doctors often don't mention. The FDA issued a black-box warning, but many plastic surgeons don't disclose it unless asked, leaving women unaware of potential dangers.
It's sad that we have to still have this conversation about this being an underappreciated problem. I think it's pretty obvious. It's a large problem with large, deep ramifications across the patient population as it pertains to women who've had breast cancer in your situation, have had cosmetic procedures in other individual situations, and— it's not being, um, thought of, dealt with properly, right?
Yeah. And we, us as cancer patients, and I'm sure other women too, we're not told all the information, we're not told the truth. And even though implants now have that black box warning on them through the work of other women and going to the FDA, you go in the FDA and all that y'all have done, the black box warning has been put on there. But I have heard like a lot of plastic surgeons won't tell their patients that black box warning unless they're specifically asked, you know, about it. And a lot of women don't, don't know. People are shocked when I tell them my story. They have no idea that it's a problem. No idea.
