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6 days ago · 3 episodes. Liz Schick, president of the World Transplant Games Federation, shares her deeply personal and truly inspirational story. Diagnosed with a life-threatening liver disease at 35, she found the courage to turn a minus into a plus, not only recovering from a serious medical condition, but using the second chance life had given her to ...
Sep 30, 2024 · Dr. Josh Mezrich’s book, “When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon,” gives an overview of transplant history and lays bare Mezrich’s trepidations and triumphs as a kidney and liver transplant surgeon at UW Hospital, where he has been on staff since 2007.
Sep 27, 2024 · The Body Transplant by Elisabeth Link, MD, is a gripping mystery novel that blends elements of science fiction and medical drama. It follows Grace, a brilliant scientist facing terminal cancer, who undergoes a secret and revolutionary full-body transplant.
Sep 11, 2024 · In 2021, David wrote his memoir, Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant. This book focused on the emotional roller coaster of working in transplant medicine. In 2024, he followed his memoir with a fiction novel called, All That Really Matters. Both books have received high praise in online reviews.
Sep 12, 2024 · A successful transplant always leaves the transplant team with a quiet sense of satisfaction. But when the lives benefitted by a transplant are compounded (as Wodehouse would say), it changes into an orchestra of harps, dulcimers, and sackbuts playing soft music.
Sep 12, 2024 · Let’s debunk 13 of the most common myths. Myth: Everyone who signs up to be an organ donor will end up being one. Myth: You can donate organs only when you’re dead. Myth: Your organs could be ...
Oct 2, 2024 · The book is suffused with the transplant’s growing awareness of the ephemerality of her own innocence: “Even if you were born in a wonderful house like this,” she thinks, “you couldn’t ...
