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High-Stakes Medicine: Looking Through The Eyes Of A Transplant Doctor

High-Stakes Medicine: Looking Through The Eyes Of A Transplant Doctor

Update: 2024-10-02
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In this episode, we chat with David Weill, the former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Diseases and the Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. Since leaving this position behind, David has been assisting transplant programs across the country – with a dedication to improving the delivery of transplant care.

In May of 2021, David published Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant, a memoir that outlines the emotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives – and what it took for him to step back and reassess his own life…

Click play now to discover:

  • What prompted David to leave his role at Stanford University Medical Center.
  • The pros and cons of working in a lung transplant program.
  • How David is working to innovate the science behind lung transplants.
  • Why certain transplant operations are more risky than others.
  • How the outcomes of single and double lung transplant surgery differ.

You can find David’s website here!

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/30PvU9C

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High-Stakes Medicine: Looking Through The Eyes Of A Transplant Doctor

High-Stakes Medicine: Looking Through The Eyes Of A Transplant Doctor