David Weill is a pulmonary and transplant physician and author of Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant.
An excerpt from Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant.
Late one Wednesday night in the spring of 2013, I sat in the ICU at Tina’s (aka Doctor D’s) bedside. She’d begun to deteriorate from chronic rejection of her lungs, and I had put her back on the waiting list for a second transplant.
My feet were propped up …
During the 25 years I’ve been a transplant doctor, I’ve cared for hundreds of patients who received lung transplants. I’m now worried about the growing number of people who will need this lifesaving procedure in the future but who won’t have enough transplant physicians to do it.
At any given time in the U.S., about Read more…
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