Around The World With Nephrology: An Autobiography
This is the story of a boy raised up in a village in Poland during World War II, with his father deported to concentration camps throughout the war. Some years after he graduated from medical school, he serendipitously entered the then developing field of dialysis, and he eventually embarked on a career-long practice in the field, where he contributed to the development of a number of new inventions and therapeutic methods.The book contains 13 chapters covering the author's childhood, education, and his career-long contributions to the field of nephrology. The book includes inspirational stories of his patients; the struggles he faced in the course of getting his numerous inventions patented; his research work in the 1990s; his work of teaching and consulting; and not the least, his travels to interesting places unrelated to business. The book concludes with an epilogue summarizing his life, as well as his predictions regarding treatment of chronic renal failure in the future.
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Around The World With Nephrology: An Autobiography
This is the story of a boy raised up in a village in Poland during World War II, with his father deported to concentration camps throughout the war. Some years after he graduated from medical school, he serendipitously entered the then developing field of dialysis, and he eventually embarked on a career-long practice in the field, where he contributed to the development of a number of new inventions and therapeutic methods.The book contains 13 chapters covering the author's childhood, education, and his career-long contributions to the field of nephrology. The book includes inspirational stories of his patients; the struggles he faced in the course of getting his numerous inventions patented; his research work in the 1990s; his work of teaching and consulting; and not the least, his travels to interesting places unrelated to business. The book concludes with an epilogue summarizing his life, as well as his predictions regarding treatment of chronic renal failure in the future.
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Around The World With Nephrology: An Autobiography

Around The World With Nephrology: An Autobiography

by Zbylut J Twardowski
Around The World With Nephrology: An Autobiography

Around The World With Nephrology: An Autobiography

by Zbylut J Twardowski

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Overview

This is the story of a boy raised up in a village in Poland during World War II, with his father deported to concentration camps throughout the war. Some years after he graduated from medical school, he serendipitously entered the then developing field of dialysis, and he eventually embarked on a career-long practice in the field, where he contributed to the development of a number of new inventions and therapeutic methods.The book contains 13 chapters covering the author's childhood, education, and his career-long contributions to the field of nephrology. The book includes inspirational stories of his patients; the struggles he faced in the course of getting his numerous inventions patented; his research work in the 1990s; his work of teaching and consulting; and not the least, his travels to interesting places unrelated to business. The book concludes with an epilogue summarizing his life, as well as his predictions regarding treatment of chronic renal failure in the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789814390026
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/22/2012
Pages: 732
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Chapter 1 Childhood 1

Chapter 2 Medical School and the Beginning of My Career in Kraków 21

Chapter 3 Professional Progress in Bytom 45

Chapter 4 Fellowship in America 97

Chapter 5 Return to Poland: The Lublin Years 111

Chapter 6 Return to Columbia: Migrating to the U.S. 127

Chapter 7 Cooperation with Fellows, Laboratory Visitors, Nurses and Technicians 141

Chapter 8 Major Research in the 1980s 151

Chapter 9 Patients Who Inspired or Contributed to Progress 169

Chapter 10 Patents in Columbia 185

Chapter 11 Major Research in the 1990s 241

Chapter 12 Teaching and Consulting 269

Chapter 13 Vacations and Travel Unrelated to Business 391

Epilogue 587

Letters to the Editor 593

Patents 595

Publications 603

Selected Abstracts 633

Selected Presentations 651

Videos 697

Index 699

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