A woman with breast implants talks to Dr. Robert Whitfield about why he speaks publicly on implant illness despite facing censorship. Whitfield trained in general surgery and oncologic reconstruction before focusing on explant cases and the health risks doctors often don't discuss.
Robert Whitfield MD, I found you because you are the explant guy. You got known for this, talking about explant illness and, well, implant illness, more to say, and all the things that go wrong in a woman's body. I, I should announce at the beginning of the episode that I actually have implants. Okay, so you can just judge me from the start, um, but it was before I got into the health and wellness space. So I, I got implants like 4 years ago. Thank God I haven't seen any of the signs and symptoms, but now I'm interested to dive in and hear from you how you actually got into it.
Well, I'm surprised you found me because I've been blocked and censored on a lot of platforms now because of talking about this. But so I mostly performed oncologic reconstruction for my career, and, um, I started out wanting to do heart surgery, so I did a traditional general surgery training of— in our program it was 6 years, and then about halfway through we had to decide, uh, what we were going to do as a year in the laboratory. And ultimately, I, I spent a year in a vascular biology lab where I did a lot of microsurgery.
