The medical, psychosocial, nursing, financial and ethical issues of treating end-stage renal disease in the elderly
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The year was 1943. As a third-year medical student at Stanford, I was about to witness the beginning of a medical miracle. Dr. Arthur Bloomfield, Professor of Medicine, had selected my patient, a middle aged man, who was dying of acute pneumococcal pneumonia, as one of the first patients to receive...