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Current Problems in the Delivery of Dialysis and Renal Transplantation

George E. Schreiner, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1969;123(5):558-567. doi:10.1001/archinte.1969.00300150076011.
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It has been said that a specialty comes of age when it acquires a successful therapy for a previously untreatable condition. By this criterion, nephrology has aged quickly. Uremia, the final common pathway for so many renal diseases, is now treatable by not one, but two new therapies: transplantation and dialysis. In dwelling on some of the major problems in this area, we mean in no way to diminish the positive aspects of these achievements, but there is more to be learned from an inventory of problems than a parade of triumphs.

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