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Memorializing your breasts before mastectomy

Before Your Surgery: Memorializing Your Breasts

By Not Putting on a Shirt / December 13, 2020

Memorializing your breasts before your mastectomy with aesthetic flat closure.

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New Resource! Preparing for Surgery

By Not Putting on a Shirt / December 8, 2020

Preparing for Surgery: a new resource for women facing mastectomy! Includes a pre-surgery checklist, supply list, recovery tips from patients who have been there, FAQ, and more.

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Brenda – “I should not have to feel embarrassed or humiliated by my own body, ever.”

By Not Putting on a Shirt / September 19, 2018

Brenda tells her story of going flat and needing multiple surgeries to get an acceptable result.

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“Deborah” – Flat Women Before Me Paved the Way

By Not Putting on a Shirt / September 18, 2018

Deborah’s story of going flat after mastectomy and waking up to an aesthetic flat closure that reflected her choice back to her.

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Informed Consent: The Difference Between Medical Care, and Battery

By Not Putting on a Shirt / September 18, 2018

The difference between medical care and battery is informed consent – the patient MUST agree to the treatment being performed ahead of time.

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$$$ Conflict of Interest for Flat Closure $$$

By Not Putting on a Shirt / September 18, 2018

Denying a patient a flat closure at their initial surgery can result in more profit for the surgeon performing the revision to “fix” it.

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Shouldn’t CANCER be your toughest fight when you’re fighting breast cancer?

By Not Putting on a Shirt / September 18, 2018

Flat denial can be even more traumatic than the mastectomy itself, and must end.

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“Flat Denial”:  Stand Up, Speak Out, and Protect Patients

By Not Putting on a Shirt / September 16, 2018

I have struggled to come up with a label for the malpractice of leaving extra tissue on a mastectomy patient’s […]

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Cindy – Her surgeon joked about overriding her wishes to be flat

By Not Putting on a Shirt / September 15, 2018

Cindy tells her survivor story of choosing to go flat after mastectomy and suffering intentional flat denial at the hands of an unethical surgeon.

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Cassandra “My surgeon was a woman…”

By Not Putting on a Shirt / September 14, 2018

Cassie tells her story of flat denial and dog ear removal at revision.

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Flat and very pleased with the results- A Previvor’s Story

By Not Putting on a Shirt / August 15, 2018

A previvor’s story of choosing to go flat after her prophylactic mastectomy and being pleased with her results.

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I had a surgeon that cared- Lonnie’s Survivor Story

By Not Putting on a Shirt / August 14, 2018

Lonnie tells her story of choosing to go flat at mastectomy, and her surgeon respecting her wishes.

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