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David Weill

Jan 31, 2024, 4:12 PM

Sensationalized news that didn’t happen: Stolen organs from dead bodies

Prof. Eitan Mor of Sheba Medical Center inspects a kidney from an Israeli woman, just before it was transported to the United Arab Emirates for transplantation to a patient there. (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

A battlefield is not the place to attempt to expand the transplant donor pool and professionals in the field have never suggested it. I should know; I am one

About Me

Dr. David Weill is the former director of the Center for Advanced Lung Diseases and the Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Washington Post, STAT, Newsweek, USA Today among many other outlets. He's also the author of 'Exhale: Healing, Hope, and a Life in Transplant.'