I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Robin Williams talks about his aortic valve replacement: http://ping.fm/H9OHR (Thanks, to Dr. Wes at http://ping.fm/41AQU)

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

New favorite fountain pen, 77¢: http://ping.fm/keDdE

Sunday, August 16, 2009

"We have contests in which we decide who is the most beautiful woman in the world... We should be able to have a World's Most Perfect Kidney contest." -- David Cronenberg, in Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: La Specola Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, BoingBoing. http://ping.fm/IS4Kd

Friday, August 14, 2009

Someone please prove me wrong: A table of the benefits of common medical therapies (aspirin, statins, etc.) DOESN'T EXIST.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Differential Diagnosis of Urine Color and Odor



Via the Primer on Kidney Diseases. (Love that text.)
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Ben Franklin in the NYT Pursuit of Happiness Blog (http://ping.fm/pUvLu)
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