160. The Transplant: David Weill, MD

<p><em>The CE experience for this </em><em>Podcast</em><em> is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: </em><a href= "https://earnc.me/RyToMr" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://earnc.me/RyToMr</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidweillmd/"><span style= "font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #4a6ee0;"> Dr. Weill</span></a> <span style= "font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #0e101a;"> served as the director of several transplant programs for 20 years, most notably as the Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style= "font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #0e101a;"> In 2016, after serving in his role at Stanford for 11 years, he did the unthinkable and walked away while at the top of his field. Dr. Weill was burnt out from the daily battles of being a doctor: the patients that couldn't be treated because of finances, the operations that failed, and the countless hours spent trying to make the modern miracle of organ transplants a bit more miraculous.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style= "font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #0e101a;"> He has written a riveting memoir</span> <a href= "https://davidweillmd.com/"><span style= "font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #4a6ee0;"> Exhale: Hope, Healing, and A Life in Transplant</span></a><span style= "font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #0e101a;">, which offers readers an inside look at the immense psychological pressure medical professionals face on the job