Welcome to HemoDoc, From Doctor to Patient by Peter Laird, MD. Dr. Laird is an internal medicine specialist with nearly 20 years of clinical practice in hospital medicine, office practice and acute care medicine. Since 2007, Dr. Laird has required renal replacement therapy with hemodialysis due to underlying IgA nephropathy, a progressive renal disease. Dr. Laird now dialyzes at home with the assistance of his wife Marilou and is an outspoken advocate for wider access to optimal dialysis strategies.
HemoDoc, From Doctor to Patient is divided into two general categories to facilitate finding posts of interest to each reader. Hopefully, this will allow internists, nephrologists and patients alike to select the topics they are interested in without having to sort through the other unrelated topics. For myself, I am an internist at heart, but as a patient, learning as much as I can about nephrology is a matter of survival. Fortunately, there is a large overlap between general medicine and nephrology in that patients with HTN, diabetes and other general medicine illnesses make up most of the patients now on dialysis. Likewise, most diaysis patients have many co-morbid illnesses on top of their renal disease. I shall try to live in that envelope of the overlap between these two areas of medicine. I hope both categories can dwell together in harmony on this one blog.
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