Robert Whitfield MD argues breast implant illness is a public health crisis affecting millions of women. He discusses the psychosocial and health challenges implant recipients face, and the financial and emotional barriers to explantation.
You know, I have a background as a public health scientist, as a geneticist, and I'm also a licensed psychotherapist. And so when I was going through my explant journey, I was seeing this area of women's health through those eyes, you know, and I saw. I view this as a public health issue. There's millions and millions of women that have breast implants. And, you know, now we know more than we did before. And so there's unmet needs, inner needs, psychosocial needs. There's the financial considerations about whenever, you know, it's time to take them out. How do you pay for that? Especially if you're taking them out because of something related to health.
