Robert Whitfield MD (speaker/creator) advises patients to empower themselves by using his YouTube channel and social-media outreach, where he explains and summarizes medical papers and his own research; he offers to make videos on papers patients bring up. He also mentions practitioner/surgeon training programs and many supporting assets (book, testing, supplements, videos) intended to help both patients and providers better understand the literature and clinical practices.
Chapters
So rather than, you know, patients feel that they can't speak with their providers about it, I'll tell you what you can do as a patient that will empower you the most is you can go to our YouTube channel. And I discuss paper. Papers. I'm sorry. And I discuss my paper. And when something is, you know, I think, like, really going to be impactful, I'll make a video about it and discuss it. Or if somebody wants me to discuss a paper that they found or they're concerned about, they can hit us up and, you know, whether it's on Instagram or TikTok or whatever, I'll make a video and, you know, I'll typically put it up on my YouTube channel so that it's as distilled down and easy to understand as possible. Because the literature is it's not easy to understand everything that's going on. It's not, you know, and whatever I can do to help it, you know, explain it from a provider level. We have a practitioner training program. If a surgeon wants to learn how we're doing things, we have surgeon training program. We have lots of tools outside of our book and our testing and our supplements and videos. I mean, I can't even think of all the assets now that we've. We have a lot of. Of assets to help, whether it's a patient or provider, to. To learn more and just become more comfortable with understanding what we know.
