The Bridge is an on-line newsletter designed for Stanford University Liver Transplant Program patients, their families and friends to connect. You are invited to send personal stories, letters, poetry and other information you feel might interest other patients or recipients. If your local support group or you alone are having an event you would like to publicize, send us a note so we can let others know. We hope to include also the Stanford Liver Transplant Program staff news of interest from time to time. Please read the Stanford University Medical Center Liver Bulletins, quarterly publications of the Liver Transplant Program at Stanford University, for more information about the team's interests.
These are the issues published to date:
The Bridge #1, Fall 1996
The Bridge #2, Summer 1997
We will publish new issues as interest dictates. So, keep the connection vibrant. We would also welcome your sending your email addresses so that we can start a new directory of patients who would like to write to each other. Read other patients' stories and consider sending your own; everyone's story is unique and interesting.
Most of you know that the Stanford University Medical Center Liver Transplant Program's new team of doctors and surgeons began seeing pediatric patients in the early spring, 1995. Adult patients followed soon after, and by the end of the second year of operation, 123 adult and pediatric patients have been transplanted, with an overall 93% survival rate. Please view the website for the Stanford University Medical Center Liver Transplant Program. We hope you will visit this site and send us your feedback.
New Website
Would you like to contribute toThe Bridge? The Bridge invites stories, poems, articles, announcements, drawings, etc. from all Stanford University Liver Transplant Program patients, friends and staff. Please send your contributions and comments via email to: kidoine@santacruz.k12.ca.us, subject: The Bridge
Copyright ©, 1996, K. Idoine