Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

The Emotional Side of Breast Explant Surgery | Finally a DOCTOR Gets It! #bii

11 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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This YouTube interview (Robert Whitfield MD) discusses the emotional, mental, and social aspects of breast explant surgery. In the excerpt one speaker recounts explanting in 2018, noting they received no guidance on the inner (psychological/social) work and frames readiness as mental, emotional and social rather than purely surgical.

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And it's why I've always appreciated when I get to talk with you, because you do see that there's so much more to explant than surgery, you know, and it's such a great everything you were just describing. I was so envious of your patients because I didn't know that stuff when I explanted in 2018. And I certainly didn't. I didn't receive guidance about any of it. And, you know, so far as working in terms of helping with the inner stuff. So I think of it as mental, emotional and social readiness.