American Society of Nephrology Presidential Address 2005

[摘要] “Science is the most communal of endeavors,” wrote the late and eloquent Dr. Lewis Thomas, who was one of my esteemed professors at New York University Medical School in the 1960s. In a Foreign Affairs monograph, Dr. Thomas described how the building blocks of physics and biology in this century had been put together one piece at a time, by men and women whose identities have been forgotten. Men and women who made the greatest medical breakthroughs will have their names forever associated with their discoveries. In the same monograph, Dr. Thomas noted that “while few giants were gifted in being able to figure out where the key pieces would fit, the pieces themselves came from other minds and hands.”

[学科分类] 泌尿医学

[关键词] Bone marrow necrosis;Sickle cell disease;Hyperhemolysis syndrome