A few years ago, I had a chance to sit down and chat with one of the older bigwig nephrologists. Not quite old or big enough to have a disease named after him, but close. He had indirectly donated a kidney to his wife.
here we go!
Twenty-six million adults in this country have chronic kidney disease and over half a million have end-stage kidney disease, yet most Americans don’t know what dialysis is. And what the hell is a nephrologist? Until I went to medical school, I was no different.