Dr. Dawn Mussalem

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1,606 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 25 Dec

Dr. Dawn Mussalem’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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For heart transplant, it's a smaller number.

About 3,900 people are on the heart transplant list.

And every day, one person dies that doesn't get a heart.

That could have been me.

They couldn't find a matching heart because of my body size, my blood type.

There's a lot that goes into that.

And I was dying.

I was actively dying.

And this was in 2020.

And then in 2021, New Year's Eve rolled around and I was starting to decompensate.

They admitted me to the hospital for supportive care.

And after a few weeks, they found a matching heart.

So here I am, alive and more youthful because of this.

Because I received a 29-year-old woman's heart that has been the biggest gift in the world.

There's so many lessons.

So it was interesting.

So a few weeks before my heart transplant, a good friend of mine who's a psychiatrist said, Dawn, do you even want this transplant?

I'm like, the crazy things we say to people, by the way, and especially the doctor, what you say really matters.

I'm like, I need one.

But why do you say this?

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