David Weill, MD

David Weill is a pulmonary and transplant physician and author of Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant.

A transplant physician faces facts about his career

Physician

May 11, 2021

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 …

Why we need more transplant physicians

David Weill, MD

Physician

October 21, 2019

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.