Lung Transplant Stories: George

In this Penn Medicine video shared in October 2013, we meet George who was diagnosed with bronchiectasis in 2007.

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In the film, we discover that George, who was a nurse for 35 years, had a double lung transplant more than two years earlier. He explains how his life has changed since the procedure and how he has been given “a second chance at life.”

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