Dr. Robert D. Foster

Dr Foster and His team of Nurses and staff are excellent !! Both my Daughter and Myself had Mastectomy’s with Dr Foster.
Dr Foster explained the procedure in detail, and answered all my questions in easy to understand terms. His Nurse Janet who is part of the reconstruction team is awesome !!! She is very experienced at her job, funny, and a very caring nurse. My 28 year old daughter had her mastectomy first due to Breast Cancer. I had the benefit of watching her surgery, reconstruction, and recovery first. I was so impressed with Dr Foster’s skill as a Surgeon and bedside manner, the outcome of her surgery was amazing. So when it was time for my Mastectomy I had complete faith in Dr. Foster. We both had «Full skin sparing»
Mastectomy’s with excellent results. You would never know we had a mastectomy. I highly recommend Dr a Foster and His team !!

Initially I was introduced to Dr Foster by Dr Laura Esserman who was highly recommended to me. Based on Dr Esserman’s relationship with Dr Foster he performed my reconstruction surgery after a bi-​lateral mastectomy (breast cancer dx).
My inital impression was good but after major complications my opinion changed. I felt that he and his office did not deal with my complicaitons with any sense of urgency including an infection which put me in the hospital for 5 days. His follow up to the infection was to remove my implant and put in another expander… the infection never cleared which led to another round of antibiotics and no follow up from him or his office. They did finally call to schedule a «flap» surgery since my implant had failed, but I had wisely moved on to another surgeon. My new surgeon found that I still had an active infection and any flap surgery would also have failed as the overall tissue was not healthy!
I am sorry that UCSF has become a «factory» where they move patients through and do not have adequate follow up. I literally called them when my skin «ripped» and they told me to just continue with my current plan…3 days later I was in the hospital for 5 days with a major infection… was anyone paying attention???
Dr Esserman is an amazing Dr but her plastic surgeon counter part is not. He is limited by the types of surgeries he does (which does not include «free flaps»)and therefore does not always give you the best options for you!
Glad I got other opinions before continuing under his care.