Word: nephrologist
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...people pause. For one thing, Undis admits, for the system to do what he promises, he would need 85% of Americans to sign on, not likely in a country that rarely reaches that kind of near unanimity on anything. What's more, Dr. Donald Landry, a nephrologist at Columbia University, points out there are people who consciously don't register for organ donation for religious and other reasons, and it would be unfair to press them on their beliefs. Most folks, however, hesitate simply because they don't want to face their own mortality, preferring to leave the postmortem choice...
...begins with an elderly Toronto couple who spent 10 days in Hong Kong. Kwan Sui-chu, 78, and her husband began a visit to the city on Feb. 13 and stayed one night at the Metropole Hotel. Kwan almost certainly had a chance encounter there with a retired Chinese nephrologist named Liu Jianlun, who, it turns out, had SARS. After her return to Toronto on Feb. 23, Kwan passed the disease to members of her family, including her son Tse. At Scarborough Grace, he was placed in a corner bed of the E.R.'s observation ward. Next...
...found less effective in some studies. "I'm sure the hospital has lost a lot of money on many of my patients, but they've never told me about it," he says. Dunn contends it is more willing to refer patients to expensive specialists. Dr. Theresa Travis, a Dunn nephrologist who spends about 20% of her time at Bedford Regional, says she often sees patients with traditional insurance months ahead of HMO patients with similar conditions. "Managed-care patients are always referred very late," she says, in some cases making kidney failure more likely...
...University of Florida nephrologist, Dr. Robert Cade, concocted Gatorade in 1965 to sustain the school's football team. The Stokely-Van Camp Co. acquired the formula and turned the drink into a moneymaker, before being acquired by Quaker in 1983. "Though it may have been developed a long time ago," says Gatorade's Dyer, "nobody has been able to come up with a way that will improve how the product works...
U.M.C. officials are hesitant to comment on just what the heart and kidney statistics may mean. Cautions U.M.C.'s Chief Nephrologist Paul Gulyassy: "Don't assume that every time anybody dies there is negligence." Irate patients and families, however, have slapped U.M.C. with 20 lawsuits seeking more than $500 million in damages...