A YouTube interview featuring Dr. Robert (Rob) Whitfield, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Austin, Texas, about breast implant illness. The host introduces Dr. Whitfield as an expert who educates women on preoperative and postoperative preparation to manage symptoms and inflammation; the conversation aims to explain patient experiences and clinician approaches to care.
This is a story that's near and dear to my heart about breast implant illness. But we've got an expert with us that has really, I think, expanded the conversation of breast implant illness. And he's doing that by educating women on how to prepare themselves preoperatively and post operatively. So I get this question all the time for women that say I'm so sick for my breast implants and they get them out and they still have so much illness, they still have so much inflammation in their body. And so Dr. Rob is here with us, Dr. Robert Whitfield. He's based in Austin, Texas, but he is educating women through his platform. He's got all kinds of educational resources we're going to talk about, but I'm so thrilled to have him on here because he understands what women are experiencing as far as their symptomatology and we can talk about what that looks like. But he's a board certified plastic surgeon, so many different credentials still operates on women every single week. So he is deep in the weeds clinically with everybody. So if you're listening to this, you likely know somebody that is affected by breast implant illness.
