Dec 26, 2022
Patient preference often guides decisions about whether to undergo dialysis, precisely because of the procedure’s potential negative impact on quality of life, according to Rebecca Frazier, MD, and colleagues. As a result,...
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For older adults with kidney failure, symptom burden worsens in the year before initiation of dialysis and stabilizes thereafter, according to a study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology....
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For patients with T1D, a personalized alternative to annual urinary albumin screening can reduce the time spent with undetected kidney disease, according to a study published in Diabetes Care. Bruce A. Perkins, MD, and...
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Within medicine, the ubiquitous culture of self-sacrifice allows us and is often necessary to become a physician. However, self-sacrifice has, at times, been taken too far, and is partially responsible for burnout and lack of...
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Change is a single constant. Oftentimes, with change, there can be much uncertainty about potential outcomes. Uncertainty is uncomfortable and usually precipitated by incomplete information, unknown effects or consequences, and...
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