<span itemprop="author">David Weill, MD

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A transplant physician faces facts about his career

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…

Why we need more transplant physicians

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 tra…