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Noshing With David Weill – June 20, 2024
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Author, All That Really Matters
This week, Ira spoke with David Weill, author of All That Really Matters. In this transplanted episode of “Ira’s Everything Bagel,” David talks about why he took the uncommon decision to leave his career as a transplant surgeon at a relatively early age and become a writer; his novel about Joe Bosco, an arrogant, hard-charging transplant surgeon whose ambition knows no bounds; how he named his main character; why writing fiction allowed him to explore more transparently the hospital ecosystem; how surgeons can suffer from compassion fatigue; why he consults and advocates for paying more attention to the medical work force; how he emphasizes relying on each other;; how you get educated from your patients; the importance of a sense of humor; “greater tolerance for greater talent”; how everything in the novel could happen or did happen in the real world; what he wants people to take away from the novel; and the religious or spiritual element in dealing with life and death issues as a surgeon.
David Weill is the former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He is currently the Principal of the Weill Consulting Group which focuses on improving the delivery of pulmonary, ICU, and transplant care.
David’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, The Hill, and the Los Angeles Times. He also has appeared on Fox, CNN, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal. David’s memoir Exhale: Hope, Healing, and A Life in Transplant was published in May of 2021. All That Really Matters is his debut novel.
David divides his time between New Orleans and Alys Beach, FL, with his wife, Jackie, two daughters, Hannah and Ava, and their dogs, Lucy and Frannie.
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