Robert Whitfield MD discusses patients seeking explant surgery after exhausting other medical options. Most arrive as a last resort, having been dismissed elsewhere, and have already decided they want the procedure before their consultation.
When someone comes to see me, like, okay, what is their real inflammatory, you know, level or score?
When a woman is coming to you and she's saying, I don't feel well, I mean, is. Are you usually like the last stop? Has she been going everywhere and everybody thinks she's crazy and is making her feel insane? Like, I don't know. I'm testing for everything. You're. You look completely normal to me. You're completely healthy. I don't know. I mean, what. What is the typical patient like? What is she going through by the time she gets to your office?
Nobody wants to have surgery. Like, nobody comes in begging me, hey, Dr. Rob, I want to have surgery again.
They're probably coming to you hoping you're going to say, you don't have this.
Yeah. Or I will tell you what. Most of them resided themselves to because they've consumed as much information as possible about it. Because I am the very last person they want to come see. Because when you come to see me, for everybody listening, that means you've resided yourself to spending about a week in Austin and having surgery. People ask, do I help tell people what to do about surgery? I don't tell anybody what to do about surgery. Everybody who comes to see me has already decided they want to have an explant. I'm not convincing anybody of anything anymore.
