Over a decade after she received a lung transplant at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Norton Thoracic Institute, a woman from New Mexico is speaking out about the life-saving surgery she received.
A hospital in the Phoenix area is celebrating 15 years since their first lung transplant.
"It is a remarkable operation to see patients stuck in a wheelchair, on oxygen and get a transplant and walk out of the hospital with their families. Very rewarding," said Dr. Ross Bremmer, Executive Director of the Norton Thoracic Institute. Our wait time to get transplanted is shorter than the national average, and there are reasons for that, because of the work our pulmonologists, potential donors that can come to transplant," said Dr. Bremmer.
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