High-Stakes Medicine: Looking Through The Eyes Of A Transplant Doctor
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
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…
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- 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!
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| 1:32.9 | Hello everyone, this is the Finding Genius Podcast. Now we're the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 1:37.6 | My guest today is Dr. David Wilde. He's a former director for the Center for Pat's Lung |
| 1:42.4 | Disease and Lung Heart and Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He's the author of a |
| 1:47.3 | book called Exhale, Oak Healy and a Life and Transplant. We're going to talk about his work when |
| 1:52.6 | he was the director and why he moved on and what he's doing now and why he wrote this new book. |
| 1:57.6 | So welcome, David. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. |
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