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#124 - Why an ER Doctor Gave His Kidney to a Complete Stranger | Dr. Matt Harmody
What makes someone give a kidney to a complete stranger? In this episode of the State of Mind Mental Health Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Matt Harmody, a retired emergency physician, living kidney donor, and author of Ascending America.
Matt walks me through leaving a stable engineering career at 30 before he had a single medical school acceptance, and what 25 years in the ER taught him about protecting his "empathy well" so compassion fatigue and burnout don't win. Then we get into the heart of it: his father's kidney failure, years on dialysis, and his refusal to let anyone in the family…
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