Story of a doctor, and of nephrology in Kerala, engagingly told
The HinduThe young doctor, who had just completed his M.D. He set up Kerala’s first department of nephrology, at the Government Medical College, Kozhikode, introduced dialysis, and was part of the team that performed the State’s first kidney transplant. Dr. Mathew manages to do that by making use of some interesting anecdotes, such as the one about an elderly patient who lent his car – till the doctor could buy one himself. We also learn more about India’s first nephrologist, Dr. Kirpal Singh Chugh, who was the man responsible for bringing the first dialysis machine to Kerala. “I wanted to write this book because I felt my experiences in nephrology, at a time when most people hadn’t even heard about the subject, needed to be recorded,” Dr. Mathew told The Hindu.
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