Patients Want Poop Transplants. Here's How to Make Them Safe
Patients Want Poop Transplants. Here's How to Make Them Safe
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 15, 20177m 55s
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Show Notes
Neill Stollman has been called the Tupac of poop transplants. The Oakland-based, board-certified gastroenterologist didn’t invent the treatment. But he did bring it to the west coast. His first patient was a woman in her 80s with a horrible case of Clostridium difficile, a gut infection that can strike patients after a course of antibiotics clears out their existing bacterial community.
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