Navigating Life as a Heart Transplant Patient with Dr. Alin Gragossian

Dr. Alin Gragossian talks about her experience with a health issue that interrupted her graduate medical education. She developed cardiogenic shock, was in the ICU, received a heart transplant and still managed to finish her emergency medicine residency and critical care fellowship!

[00:00:23] Interrupted Medical Training. 

[00:05:33] Cardiogenic shock and resuscitation. 

[00:06:41] Severe heart failure. 

[00:12:44] Heart transplant urgency. 

[00:16:04] Heart transplant candidacy. 

[00:20:36] Facing mortality before surgery. 

[00:23:44] Phrases that helped. 

[00:25:36] Caregivers and support people. 

[00:28:13] Patient privacy in hospitals. 

[00:31:39] Patient support in transplant. 

[00:34:39] Heart transplant support group. 

[00:37:07] Meeting a hero. 

[00:41:35] Power of social media. 

[00:43:29] Transplant patient as a resident.

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