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Health care workers are burning mad — not only burnt out
04/10/22
Last week, President Biden signed into law the Dr. Lorna Breen Healthcare Provider Protection Act. Breen’s death by suicide was a sentinel moment in the early phase of the pandemic, a stark indication that our health care workforce was bearing a great burden of the pandemic’s onslaught.

A Witness to the Human Experience: Why Medicine Needs Storytellers
01/28/22
While working at Stanford for 11 years on the frontlines of a top lung transplant program, I often had a plotline running in my head. I didn’t know the narrative’s exact format, but I knew there was a story to tell. I saw some truly inspiring things, including courageous patients who fought for their lives.
Opinion: Of course unvaccinated people should be barred from receiving transplant organs
10/15/21
A Colorado health system recently sparked outrage by deciding that potential transplant recipients would not be considered for a transplant if they had not received the coronavirus vaccine. The issue arose when a woman had her spot on a kidney transplant list “inactivated,” with the threat of removal from the list entirely, if she didn’t pursue vaccination within 30 days.

About David Weill
David Weill is the former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and the Lung Transplant Program at Stanford. He is currently the Principal of Weill Consulting Group, which focuses on improving the delivery of transplant care.
Dr. Weill’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Salon, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, STAT, USA Today, and the Washington Post. He also has been interviewed on CNN and by the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal.
He lives with his wife and two daughters in New Orleans.