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Will I Be Able to Work Right Away?
Will I Be Able to Work Right Away?
The most practical question in a surgical consultation is usually about scheduling rather than recovery as such. When can I go back to work, can I recover while working — questions like that.
The worry someone who had gynecomastia surgery in June wrote in the first box of their review was exactly that. Will I be able to work right away?
This person wrote that once the first week or so had passed, they returned to daily life after that.
But that is their case. Recovery speed varies with the amount of glandular tissue removed, skin condition, and the kind of work you do. A desk job and work that uses the arms heavily cannot share the same return date. So in consultations I ask first what kind of work you do and then plan the schedule accordingly. Getting through the early period without overdoing it is what ultimately shortens the whole recovery.

In the box about their first impression of the clinic, they wrote that it was comfortable because everyone was male.
TRUEMAN Gangnam is run with male medical staff and male employees from consultation through surgery. People with gynecomastia often come after carrying it alone for a long time, and if the place where they first raise it is uncomfortable, not all of the necessary information comes out. I read the short remark that it was comfortable as meaning that purpose was working.
The box about a moment that stayed with them from the surgery held an unexpected answer. That more than anything else, they were surprised at how skilled the person drawing blood was, and that it did not hurt at all.
Because the surgery itself takes place after anesthesia, what stays in a patient's memory is generally the process on either side of it. Tests, the blood draw, the few minutes just before entering the operating room. Sensitivity to pain varies widely, but this answer confirmed again that moments that look trivial are what form the impression of the whole clinic.
For what they wanted to do after surgery, they chose spending midsummer in a single short-sleeved shirt with their shoulders back.
I often hear in the consulting room that summer is a particularly hard season. Through the months when a single thin layer is all anyone wears, layering clothes or hiding behind posture is repeated over and over.
To others with the same concern, they wrote to the effect that it is not a light decision but is worth considering once. It was neither a call to postpone nor a call to hurry.
I think the same. In gynecomastia, judgments about surgical method and necessity change with grade and the state of the glandular tissue, so it is right to decide after confirming your own condition through an examination. Having tests done and deciding on surgery are separate matters.
In the last box they asked that we keep up the same bright manner. We will not forget it.
- · Board Certified Surgeon / Breast Surgery Fellow
- · Surgical Residency, Korea Cancer Center Hospital (KIRAMS)
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- · Breast Surgery Fellowship, Korea Cancer Center Hospital (KIRAMS)
- · Lifetime Member, The Korean Surgical Society
- · Member, Korean Breast Cancer Society
- · Member, The Korean Surgical Ultrasound Society (KSUS)
- · Member, Korean Association of Breast Surgery (KABS)
