A short video segment in which Robert Whitfield MD advises patients on how to become comfortable with healthcare providers when addressing breast implant illness (BII). He recommends using provider podcasts or channels to learn about their perspectives and notes that some patients have had negative local experiences when raising BII with plastic surgeons.
That will help you decide, you know, and comfortable with them. If they have a podcast like I do, or a channel where you can hear them speak before you ever meet them, it will help you develop a level of comfort with them based on how they discuss breast implant illness and their process for identification and treatment and planning for surgery if indicated. Many times you'll, you know, try to stay, you know, local because it's, it's convenient to go learn. But I've had a lot of, of people have negative experiences in their local communities when asking plastic surgeons about breast implant illness.
