My girlfriend is on the lung transplant team at St. Joes. She’s a Speech Language Pathologist. She performs all of the pre-op and post-op evaluations for lung transplant patients. As a part of this team, she also makes recommendations for who should be eligible for the transplant and why.

This lung transplant team is the one who want to buy lunch for. Not because my girlfriend is part of it, but because they are the ones responsible for saving your friends life. The surgeons and therapists are the most important part of that team. The doctors on the other hand, typically provide no value to that process.

The lung transplant meetings take place early in the morning, in which a light breakfast of pastries and baked goods are served. Buying lunch or dinner for this team would be difficult logistically, as they do not gather for lunch or dinner together. I think your good will would be best served in the form of gift cards are something like that.