A surgeon who specializes in oncologic reconstruction explains why he's been censored for discussing health risks linked to breast implants. Dr. Robert Whitfield describes his path from cardiac surgery to vascular biology research, then addresses what he calls the hidden dangers doctors won't publicly acknowledge.
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.
