A recorded conversation between Robert Whitfield MD and a guest about the challenges of discussing explant surgery with patients and the stigma around seeking such care. The speakers note that patients are often reluctant to discuss explant surgery and that clinicians (including naturopathic doctors) are sometimes stereotyped regarding their stance on alternative medicine.
If you're in front of me, that's basically been your decision, because nobody wants to sit in front of me in Austin or online and talk about anything related to explant surgery.
Yeah. Which I so appreciate that you're willing to have those conversations, those hard conversations, that by the time that person has to reach out to you, they don't want it either, but they may realize or may feel that it could be their only hope. And so I think that's a place where we have a lot of resonance, too. Like, no one really wants to be talking to somebody like me as well, but I'm like you and that I think I see things through the I think people assume that because I'm a naturopathic doctor that I'm just going to be totally pro alternative medicine.
