Robert Whitfield MD advises patients to interview surgeons, ask specific questions, and switch doctors if they're unreceptive. He recommends scripted statements to your anesthesiologist and surgeon before surgery, and shares a story about a New York surgeon who embraced a patient's checklist.
You can take more control of the situation for yourself and advocate for yourself. Yeah. And that's like. When you have this information that's empowering you and you can become your own advocate. You can. You just have more awareness when you're interviewing a surgeon to know if they're on your wavelength or not, because you're asking questions guided by this. And if they're standoffish or don't have time or not even open to having that conversation, find another surgeon. Like, my guy in New York, I just came in with, like, the Peggy stuff and, like, you know, writing down the statements that the anesthesiologist or the surgeon says to you as you're going under. So you're programming the subconscious mind to say that the surgery is going to go smoothly and there's going to be, you know, no need for drains and whatever it was that I did. And. And they were open to doing that, especially the surgeon. I was like, okay. And now he wants me to create just, like, a checklist to hand out to his people. Obviously, this is the checklist, but just on the mindset side, too.
