Episode notes
In the thirty-second episode of White Coats, Real Talk, Atharva and Akshara Anand speak with Dr. Jenny Pan, clinical instructor at Stanford School of Medicine and an abdominal transplant surgeon specializing in kidney transplantation. Working at the front lines of transplant medicine, Dr. Pan guides patients through end-stage kidney disease, living donation, and the complex realities of life before and after transplant. In this conversation, she breaks down how kidneys keep the body alive, the major diseases that lead to kidney failure, and how rejection is prevented and treated.