Dr. David Weill: ...the emotional toll of being a transplant physician

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Join us for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at organ transplants and what it’s like to work as a lung transplant physician confronted with life-and-death decisions every day. Our guest is transplant consultant Dr. David Weill, who is the former director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and the Lung Transplant Program at Stanford. He's also the author of a gripping memoir entitled, "Exhale: Hope, Healing and A Life in Transplant".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.2	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.8	On this episode, we're going to get a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at organ transplants
0:20.6	and what it's like to work as a lung transplant physician confronted with life and death decisions every day.
0:26.4	Our guest is transplant consultant Dr. David Weil, who is the former director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Program at Stanford.
0:36.7	He's also the author of a gripping new memoir entitled Exhale, Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant.
0:44.3	Dr. Thank you so much for joining us.
0:46.3	Thank you. Great to be here.
0:48.3	What prompted you to write the book, Exhale, and why did you name it that?
0:53.3	I came home from the hospital a lot of nights
0:56.3	and had a great deal on my mind based on what I saw in the hospital every day. And I actually
1:01.0	kept a journal for around 20 years and would jot down notes to myself about what I had seen
1:07.5	and decided when it was time to step away from the front lines of doing this
1:13.0	kind of care that I would make it into a book.
1:16.0	So these little notes became scenes and they ultimately became the whole book.
1:21.9	And the title exhale really came about because not only am I a lung transplant doctor and we obviously
1:29.3	have to inhale and exhale, but I also write about in the book where I found for me personally
1:36.3	it was time to take a big exhale because I had been on a roller coaster for more than 20 years.
1:43.3	When you were deciding what part of medicine to go into, you said that intellectually,
1:47.8	you knew that transplants were risky with a high potential for complications, but emotionally
1:52.8	you refused to accept it.
1:55.0	When did you first have a reality check and think to yourself, gosh, I wonder if I got
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