
Exhale
Hope, Healing, and Life in Transplant
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Narrated by:
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David Weill MD
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By:
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David Weill MD
Exhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode the emotional roller coaster of losing and saving lives - up until the point when it was time for him to get out.
A young father with a rare form of lung cancer who has been turned down for a transplant by several hospitals. A kid who was considered not “smart enough” to be worthy of a transplant. A young mother dying on the waiting list in front of her two small children. A father losing his oldest daughter after a transplant goes awry. The nights waiting for donor lungs to become available, understanding that someone needed to die so that another patient could live.
These are some of the stories in Exhale, a memoir about Dr. Weill’s 10 years spent directing the lung transplant program at Stanford. Through these stories, he shows not only the miracle of transplantation, but also how it is a very human endeavor performed by people with strengths and weaknesses, powerful attributes, and profound flaws.
Exhale is an inside look at the world of high-stakes medicine, complete with the decisions that are confronted, the mistakes that are made, and the story of a transplant doctor’s slow recognition that he needed to step away from the front lines. This book is an exploration of holding on too tight, of losing one’s way, and of the power of another kind of decision - to leave behind everything for a fresh start.
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How extremely hard it must be to work in this field without having a breakdown
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A must read for transplant professionals
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Learning how doctors race against time to find a suitable match before their patients are too sick to remain viable transplant candidates is enthralling. Many of the patients’ stories are heartbreaking, and you can definitely understand the personal and emotional toll being a transplant physician for 20 years took on Dr. Weill.
As with most memoirs, having the author read the audio version gives Exhale a deeper level of personalization so I highly recommend listening to this engaging and well written book. Whether or not you think you have any interest in organ transplantation, you will be intrigued by Exhale.
Fascinating Memoir
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SUCH A BLESSING!
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The proof amazing, strong physicians are human
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Captivating
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Wish I read this a decade ago
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