Today is World Kidney Day. This year's theme is "Kidney Disease & Children: Act Early To Prevent It!" but since its inception in 2006, the common goal of every theme has been to make more people aware of kidney disease early in its course, in hopes that it’s progression to end-stage kidney disease may be prevented or at least delayed.
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“I take care of people, not patients,” the doctor self-righteously announced before asking his question of the panel of speakers. We were sitting in a conference about how primary care doctors and nephrologists could use health information technology to provide better care to patients with chronic kidney disease. “When did ‘patient’ become a dirty word?” I asked my colleague sitting next to me.