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PublisherPost Hill Press
ISBN-101642937606
ISBN-139781642937602
eBay Product ID (ePID)25050369464
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameExhale : Hope, Healing, and Alife in Transplant
Publication Year2021
SubjectPhysician & Patient, Physicians, Surgery / General, Personal Memoirs
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Medical
AuthorDavid Weill
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Dr. Weill provides us with a peek into the operating rooms where desperately ill patients are given new lungs, and into the conference rooms where medical staffs make their life-and-death decisions. He takes a hard look at the criteria used to decide who "deserves" a chance at life with a pristine new pair of lungs, and explains how these decisions affect patients, their families, hospital staff, and ultimately himself. Maturing from a hard-driving transplant doctor into a more compassionate, and realistic, clinician who finally allows himself to feel the anguish of the patients and their family, Dr. Weill finds he must confront his own unrelenting focus on treatment success. He takes stock of the toll his furious assault on death has taken on his own life, and his own family. This is a riveting read, both for Dr. Weill's deep understanding of the delights and disasters of lung transplantation, and for his narrative about the procedure's human toll." --Laurence M. Westreich, M.D , Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal617.954092
SynopsisExhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode the emotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives--until it was time to step back and reassess his own life. 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 ten 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., Exhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode the emotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives--until it was time to step back and reassess his own life.
LC Classification NumberRD27.35
