Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Navigating Medical Risks: Tiffany's Inspiring Journey

1 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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This YouTube video features Robert Whitfield MD discussing clinical decision-making and risk management in the care of a patient named Tiffany. In this excerpt he explains that lesions larger than about one centimeter are harder to manage, that Tiffany's staging was favorable, and that multidisciplinary consultations allowed safe ongoing surveillance. He emphasizes avoiding interventions that would leave a patient in a worse position (for example, causing an infection).

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So it would have been not easy to surveil. And it easily grows and gets to be more problematic because as things get over a centimeter, they get to be more difficult to address, either surgically or not. So we were fortunate and we found that and got around everything. And the staging of it was very favorable for Tiffany. And then she had her consultations with other providers who helped assess risk, and then they can surveil it now, which, you know, the bottom line in all of that is if. If you're doing something and, you know, it's kind of in my head, like, you can't put people in a worse position. So if I left somebody with an infection, that's a worse position.