28 APR 2012 by ideonexus

 Do What You Love

It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.
Folksonomies: wisdom life
Folksonomies: wisdom life
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Quote from Gertrude B. Elion's lecture notes.

30 AUG 2011 by ideonexus

 While the Patient is Alive, the Urine is Ours

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