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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Talks
Episode: Mayo Clinic Q&A: Transplant Surgeries and COVID-19
Description: This episode is shared from Mayo Clinic Q&A and was recorded in September, 2020.
To claim credit visit: https://ce.mayo.edu/covid19podcast
Guest: Patrick G. Dean, M.D.
Host: Sanjeev (Sanj) Kakar, M.D. (@sanjkakar)
Transplants are identified as nonelective surgeries, and transplant patients have faced urgent medical needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Our practice, like many others across the country, did slow down in March and April of this year," says Dr. Patrick Dean, a Mayo Clinic transplant surgeon. "Patients and providers were concerned ― appropriately so ― about what...