Urine microscopy: A shamrock shaped oval fat body
Identified by R1 two weeks into her IM residency! (McGill grad, just saying)
Pt with nephrotic syndrome, anasarca, serum albumin 16 mmol/L and urine protein 12 g/g and minimal change on renal biopsy.
@OfficialJLD@LemonadaMedia@Janefonda I listened to this in rapture, you're the most amazing interviewer I have ever heard.
I wish Nora Ephron were alive for you to interview her. Other fantasy football guests include @ANNELAMOTT Oprah, Tina Fey + Amy Poehler @CarlySimonHQ
@ANNELAMOTT I would love to know which quotes or moments the audience remembers now, 20 years later, or if they just remember how this commencement address made them feel, which I am sure was pure awesome
The patient's voice, a follow up piece to her NY Times article, My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon.
"Organ transplantation is mired in stagnant science and antiquated, imprecise medicine that fails patients and organ donors."
We need more breakthroughs
@ajsilverstein16 Thinking of you daily since reading your beautiful piece and hoping that a cure for your lung cancer will manifest today, and that transplant breakthroughs will do so tomorrow, that's what you and all recipients of all organs so deserve
For Earth Day I thought about what we do re: planet on fire. We got these 28 solar panels last summer, we plant 300 trees every year, keep a beehive and a big garden, and at work I rinse out every wretched tuna can to bring home and recycle
Dr. Kolff found it difficult to continue his work under the Nazis so sent 4 machines to Montreal, Warsaw, London and New York. He brought the 5th with him to Cleveland, where he emigrated.
Despite his invention saving millions of lives, Dr. Kolff never won the Nobel prize
Feb 23, 2023 was the 75th anniversary of the first dialysis in Quebec. In Oct 1947 the Kolff dialysis machine arrived in Montreal, followed by Dr. Nanny De Leeuw, a student of Dr. Kolff. She and her team performed the 1st dialysis at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
The sign says: Dialysis was first successful in 1945, the first 16 patients died, but the 17th patient, Sophia Schafstadt famously said “If I survive this, I’m going to divorce my husband.” She got her divorce.