How I led my own heart transplant | Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil | TEDxNYU Langone Health

I was 14 years old when my father was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy. We were told that a virus had attacked and destroyed his heart. He developed congestive heart failure and had many cardiac arrests.He spent most of the last two years of his life in the hospital. I was the youngest of four boys and the only one still at home. I remember my mother so clearly pleading with the cardiologist, "You must have something more up your sleeve. You can't tell me that there's no hope." His response, "Well, there's a h ...