While the Patient is Alive, the Urine is Ours

Published Aug 30, 2011 by ideonexus

When the patient dies the kidneys may go to the pathologist, but while he lives the urine is ours. It can provide us day by day, month by month, and year by year, with a serial story of the major events going on within the kidney.

Thomas Addis, Glomerular nephritis: Diagnosis and treatment (1949)

Notes

Addis remarks on learning about the state of the patient's kidneys from urine tests.

kidneys
medical
medicine
pathology

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Glomerular nephritis: Diagnosis and treatment Book

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Urine Health Condition
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Urine OpenCyc Freebase DBpedia
Kidney Freebase OpenCyc DBpedia
Urinary tract infection DBpedia Freebase OpenCyc
Ureter DBpedia Freebase OpenCyc
Nephrology Freebase OpenCyc DBpedia
Urinary bladder DBpedia Freebase
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Keywords

urine tests, serial story, kidneys, major events, Addis, pathologist, patient, kidney, state