Dr. Robert Whitfield describes patients who seek breast implant removal after being dismissed by other doctors and exhausting other options. Most arrive reluctant and emotionally drained, hoping surgery isn't necessary. Whitfield emphasizes that no one wants surgery, and his role is navigating their expectations after years of feeling labeled crazy.
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 it's 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 wanna have surgery again.
They're probably coming to you hoping you're gonna say you don't have this.
Yeah, or I will tell you what, most of them resided themselves too 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, 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.
