Patients Want Poop Transplants. Here's How to Make Them Safe

Published: Dec. 15, 2017, 7:12 a.m.

Neill Stollman has been called the Tupac of poop transplants. The Oakland-based, board-certified gastroenterologist didn\u2019t 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.