Short YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD describing how a patient's experience and social media/message boards increased demand for breast implant explant surgeries. The speaker recounts receiving calls from patients seeking explants after online posts identified surgeons and asserts that implants will ultimately fail over their lifetime, leading to device-related problems.
What made her want to get it taken out this way? She had to have some secret knowledge or she was psychic. Well, she didn't really ever allude to this. But shortly thereafter, my office started getting calls from patients requiring explants and they're like, you have all these people wanting this now. So she put me on some Facebook and she was an early, probably an early advocate for breast implant. So she just kind of went about her way and all of a sudden I just had people coming, calling. But that's what's posted on these message boards and they identify surgeons. And then I started having people come and as I left my group practice went into solo practice, this became more and more the theme just so that everybody listening understands those all will ultimately fail. Wow. It doesn't really matter how good I am. You can spend all day, pat yourself on the back because eventually that device will, over its lifetime there will be a problem with it.
