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Geriatric Nephrology - The medical, psychosocial, nursing, financial and ethical issues of treating end-stage renal disease in the elderly (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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Geriatric Nephrology - The medical, psychosocial, nursing, financial and ethical issues of treating end-stage renal disease in the elderly (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
Series: Developments in Nephrology, 12
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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 miniscule doses (by today's
standards) of his meagre supply of a new drug - penicillin. The
patient's response amazed everyone especially this impressionable
medical student. The rest of the story is history. With one stroke,
the introduction of penicillin removed from the medical scene the
'friend of the aged' - lobar pneumonia. The consequences, which no
one could have imagined at the time, are still becoming manifest as
other 'miracles' such as respirators, artificial kidneys and many
potent new antibiotics have come upon the scene. All of us are
aware that these miracles have created a variety of new challenges
around the states of dying and near dying. We have no easy answers
for these problems. Nevertheless as dialysis techniques, especially
CAPD, are applied more widely to the treatment of the elderly, the
task of helping the patient meet death with dignity becomes
increasingly important and vexing because once begun, dialysis is
difficult to terminate.
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