Robert Whitfield MD discusses his work investigating breast implant illness, including his role as vice chair of a committee and testimony at FDA hearings. The panel explores 10-year health planning across life stages, from having children to aging skin at 50 and beyond.
You could have told me all the symptoms. It was like, that's when I. And that's the kind of person that I just am in general. And I think a lot of really young girls are like this. They're like, I'm doing this. This is what I'm doing. I don't care. But here's what I would ask people to consider. What is the plan? Meaning, what is the plan in 10 years? What is the plan after you have kids? What is the plan when you're 50 and you have a different skin texture? What's the plan when you're 70? That's what I think people need to start thinking about.
What is the. I mean, so if this subject matter falls in the realm of controversial, which, you know, we're no, you know, strangers to that realm, what are the. What are the things you get pushback for or people like yourself get pushed back for?
Let him pull out his scroll.
Well, because I try to understand, like you said, there's always skeptics, right? And there's probably people listening here that are skeptical, saying, hey, okay, you know, what's this guy talking about? How do you respond to those skeptics?
Yeah, they should have never invited me to the meeting if they didn't want me to figure out the problem. I was invited a long time ago to be a vice chair on the committee for breast implant illness. And then I became the president Elect, and I testified at the FDA hearings that we would try to figure out and apply research to the problem. And as a president, I got that funded. And in my own personal experience, I've tried to answer the questions that either don't get answered or. Or aren't entered thoroughly enough so that we provide color and context around it. So there's really not an argument.
