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2012

Kidney Diseases/etiology

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A Kidney For Christmas, Stephen Scholand Oct 2012

A Kidney For Christmas, Stephen Scholand

The Medicine Forum

When Asmar Lawrence first walked into the small examining room in the Jefferson Hospital Ambulatory Practice (JHAP) Clinic, we both had no idea what the future would hold. It was July, 1998 and I was fresh from medical school. Each week, I looked forward to the JHAP experience to develop my clinical skills and follow patients longitudinally. No longer was my learning prescribed from a textbook, this was the 'real world' of medicine where anything could happen and I was supposed to be in control of it. The long white coat probably helped perpetuate some of that illusion. Fortunately our …