musings of a salt whisperer
I had the honor of being invited back to the Curbsiders to discuss hyperkalemia. I am not all the way through the episode yet, but so far I have not heard any embarrassing mistakes. But I’ll be sure to post any retractions and corrections here when I come across one.
Bill Peckam has passed. Bill was a long time dialysis patient (29 years) who was a public patient.He wrote the incredibly popular Sharp End of the Needle blog (when I did a review of nephrology blogs in 2013, I declared Sharp End to be the third nephrology related blog ever). It looks like he stopped posting to the blog this past June and his last Tweet was in November.
My favorite memory of Bill was reading his blog about rafting down the Snake River doing NX Stage at night. People talk about how home hemo allows you to really live your life. Bill was the embodiment of this. He also was a tremendous advocate for dialysis patients.
In 2014, I feeling drained from getting NephJC off the ground, working on NephMadness, and setting up DreamRCT. I thought, what I really need is an intern to help me get my work done. That was the inspiration for the NSMC social media internship. That December we opened applications for the first class of interns.
Every year since then the class has grown and the curriculum has gotten more sophisticated.
The irony is that I was looking for help with my projects and instead built a monstrosity. I have built a monster project. I think what I need now is an intern to help with the internship.
Kidding aside, The NSMC internship has been an amazing journey and it has been uniquely rewarding to see our graduates take leadership positions in nephrology.
Silvi, NSMC class of 2016, and I recently published a summary of the NSMC Social Media Internship in CJASN.
The article is open access, so take a look. Additionally feel free to check out the NSMC class of 2019 that was just announced moments ago.