Dr. Robert Whitfield says major chest surgery isn't a quick cosmetic procedure. Start blood work and diagnostics three months before surgery. The "Total Tox Test" identifies hidden toxic burdens that affect healing and recovery.
The thing I always emphasize to women is they think that this is just plastic surgery and it's elective and, oh, I should be bouncing back and recovering. I'll kind of just talk about the pre-op process and how we come to decide, like, when is the best surgical day. But if we had the optimal patient that could come to us, you know, we'd be doing their blood work and tests about 3 months before and can work with them from there. After you have a, you know, consult and decide to make the journey of the surgery with us, ideally, like I said, you know, we have a couple of months to work with you because there is the Total Tox Test that we use that kind of is a little marker of what's going on inside of your body. People have probably never had a surgeon do this on them before. It's like a little roadmap that tells us like what is kind of going on in the body and how can we prepare them best, you know, from an internal standpoint to heal from a major surgery such as this. You know, the thing I always emphasize to women is they think that this is just plastic surgery and it's elective and oh, I should be bouncing back and recovering. But the reality is, is that this is a major chest surgery.
