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E 96 Liver and Kidney Transplant Surgeon Dr Praise Matemavi DO
Category: Health
Duration: 00:44:53
Publish Date: 2018-11-06 06:42:12
Description: Dr. Praise Matemavi, DO talks to Dr Trosclair on A Doctors Perspective Podcast Dr. Praise Matemavi is a story of determination and seeking your dream no matter the circumstance. Listen to her story: Zimbabwean to USA, childbirth at 18, osteopath doctor, liver and kidney transplant surgeon fellowship and topics about organ transplants. From Zimbabwe, moved to America at 14, had two babies by the age of 21 (still not an American citizen) (also not a healthy relationship so divorced) but she never lost her passion to be a surgical doctor. Listen how she went from a steady critical care nurse career to finishing 60 hours of college in one year along with passing the MCAT as a single mom. Now Dr. Praise Matemavi has finished Michigan State Osteopathic School, did a fellowship at New York Presbyterian in Queens and is now at the University of Nebraska for fellowship (she finishes in one year). Her specialty is multivisceral transplants (liver, pancreas, kidneys and bowels). Dr. Praise has a dream of going back to Zimbabwe one day to do kidney transplants (one day liver transplants) so the citizens do not have to travel to another country for the surgery. This is actually a challenging scenario because although some programs like this are available in countries like Ethiopia already, it would be new to Zimbabwe. Her father moved the family to America because of her dream since the age of 10 to be a doctor. He is a pastor and his daughter got pregnant and became a nurse. Her mother also had an opinion on the situation. Take a listen to how impactful family is on your life decisions. We dive into the complexity of liver and kidney transplants, who is a candidate and how to avoid that surgery. Metabolic syndrome, alcoholics, hepatitis C and fatty liver from fatty food consumption. Should we all be organ donors? Will a doctor withhold treatment because you have amazing organs? What are the 3 types of organ donor classifications? The patients who need organ transplants are quite sick, How do you cope with patients who reject the transplant or don’t make it off the operating table? As a female black surgeon how does she confront subtle discrimination and /or ignorance when at new hospitals? Can you guess where the highest population of Zimbabwean are located in the USA? Book: Gifted Hands - Ben Carson, Cutting For Stone - Abraham Verghese, How to Do a Liver Transplant – Kellee Slater drmatemavi@gmail.com Instagram: drpraise0624 Show notes can be found at www.adoctorsperspective.net/96 here you can also find links to things mentioned and a full transcript of the show. Full Transcript of the Interview (probably has some grammatical errors). Just Click to expand Justin Trosclair 0:03 Episode 96 liver and kidney transplant surgeon I’m your host Dr. Justin just clear and today your doctor praise 2017 and 2018 podcast Awards Nominated host as we get behind the curtain look at all types of doctors and guests specialties. Let’s hear a doctor’s perspective. Today’s show is inspiring. I don’t wanna spoil too much, but she’s from Zimbabwe and her family moved to America when she was 14 so that she could pursue her goal to be a doctor. Now she ended up changing to liver and kidney transplant surgeon along the way, but that’s okay, so today we’re going to talk a little bit about her backstory which is pretty unique because it goes more than just what I just said. She has a plan to go back to Zimbabwe one day to be able to do kidney and liver transplants because it’s not really set up yet. So we’ll talk about that. What kind of conditions set you up to need a transplant How do you deal when you lose a patient doctor praise and I have a really good conversation it’s flows back and forth there’s some laughter in there there’s some seriousness in there are really think you’re going to be inspired by this, especially if you are a woman minority. You’re gonna see Wow, she can do it. I can do it.
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