musings of a salt whisperer
This tweet has taken off. What do you call a nephrologists who likes to go jogging? A Nephrun. pic.twitter.com/51pGZ0vQJh — Joel Topf, MD FACP (@kidney_boy) October 3, 2017 A few people have expressed an interest in getting one for themselves. Okay, I’m a reasonable guy. How about this deal. If you are going to Kidney …
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One thing that bothers me are disease organizations that use the fear of the disease to raise money to treat the well. This happens when breast cancer organizations raise money to “raise awareness.” You know what? No one with breast cancer needs their awareness raised. Similar to this but more subtle is raising money to …
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I am going to Mount Everest Basecamp with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (please donate). They have a program called Moving Mountains for Multiple Myeloma. These are even driven fund raisers. They put together a team of patients, doctors, patient caregivers, and people climbing in memorial for someone they lost to multiple myeloma. The trek …
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He is a 57 year old man. Husband. Father. A bit over weight, nothing too extreme. He likes to play basketball. He drinks bourbon, an occasional scotch; he rarely over indulges. The more I learn about him, the more familiar he is. He looks like any one of my friends. He only found his way …
I’m going to Mount Everest Basecamp next year to help raise money and awareness for multiple myeloma. Basecamp is at 18,500 feet. In honor of that altitude, here is a review of all the times I have blogged about acetazolamide. Altitude sickness and the role of acetazolamide. My first post on acetazolamide in anticipation of …
We are Moving Mountains for Multiple Myeloma (MM4MM) Yes, I get that it makes no sense but neither does “Race for the Cure.” But today in order to raise money to advance science we need to do dramatic feats of physical exertion. I am going to the bottom of Everest. Yes, going to the top …
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I remember a time when I thought the treatment of chronic SIADH was going to be revolutionized by the vaptans. These small molecular ADH antagonists would interrupt the disease the precise mechanism of disease. I expected a Banting and Best like revolution. (If you have not seen the story of the discovery of insulin take …
This is just a picture of the ballot go to RFN to cast you ballot. One of my favorite end-of-the-year traditions is Renal Fellow Network’s top nephrology stories of the year. Make sure you vote. The authors did a great job selecting 2013’s top stories of nephrology somehow they forgot the Omontys allergic reaction, voluntary recall …
About a year ago the ASN Kidney Week hosted the most exciting Late Breaking Trial Session I have attended. The session included the first public disclosure of the EVOLVE trial and the incredibly exciting results from the TEMPO 3:4 trial. I blogged about this for eAJKD and felt then, and still feel now, that this …
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I am going to Kings Canyon National Park at the end of the month. I will leave Detroit, elevation 600 feet and will travel via planes, trains and automobiles to 9,000 feet for the first night. Then we will begin out hike and cross passes over 12,500 feet. In the past, I have developed modest …
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