What’s up doc?
Sometimes you can wait months for an important doctor visit, and it can be taxing on your body, mind and spirit. Join Dr. David Weill and Ali on this new episode of Lyme Time as they discuss how to talk to your doctor.
As the previous Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center, he led a team of 55+ people and oversaw the care plan for transplant patients, assessing their psychological chances for survival and matching them with organs as they became available.
In 2016, after serving in his role at Stanford for 11 years, Dr. Weill did the unthinkable and walked away while at the top of his field. He was burnt out from the daily battles and emotional rollercoaster of being a doctor: the patients that couldn’t be treated because of finances, the operations that failed, and the countless hours spent trying to make the modern miracle of organ transplants a bit more miraculous.
Dr. Weill is currently the Principal of the Weill Consulting Group, a consultancy that specializes in helping medical teams perform better and improve the delivery of pulmonary, ICU, and transplant care.
He is also the author of the riveting memoir Exhale: Hope, Healing, and A Life in Transplant, which offers readers an inside look at the immense psychological pressure medical professionals face on the job and the toll a career in transplant took on one of the nation’s most successful transplant doctors.
Dr. Weill has twice testified before the U.S. Senate about how various inhaled occupational exposures affect lung health, appeared before various state legislatures, and lectured extensively nationally and internationally at major medical conferences and academic medical centers.
Additionally, he has authored many book chapters, editorials, and medical articles, which have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Salon, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, STAT, the Washington Post, The Hill, and the Los Angeles Times.
Dr. Weill also has been interviewed by many major media outlets, including Fox, CNN, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wall Street Journal, and the Doctors TV show.
We are grateful he took time out of his day to discuss tips on how to talk to your doctor in the face of a medical condition, how to regain trust, and return to your sense of personal power.
Click HERE for this episode of Lyme Time and HERE to learn more about Dr. Weill’s incredible journey, consulting with Dr. Weill, and to order his book.
In good health,
Ali
