Kidney Disease: A Guide for Living
Walter Hunt has provided careful and understandable explanations, and he’s offered his personal experience with and perspectives on how kidney failure has affected his life. I congratulate him for providing this excellent guide for people with kidney disease.(Ronald D. Perrone, M.D., Tufts Medical Center)The paucity of consumer health information on kidney disease and treatment makes this essential for consumer health collections, despite its high reading level.(Library Journal)People with the disease can lead full and productive lives, and Hunt's readable and empathetic book will help them do just that.(Book Bargains and Previews)This book has filled a gap that exists int he lierature addressing many relevant aspects of life with chronic kidney disease and renal failure from a patient's perspective... This book should be widely available as a reference to chronic kidney disease patients and their families and by all those involved in chronic kidney disease care.(Olwyn JohnsonJournal of Tranplantation)This book has filled a gap that exists in the literature addressing many relevant aspects of life with chronic kidney disease and renal failure from a patient's perspective. This book should be widely available as a reference to chronic kidney disease patients and their families and by all those involved in kidney disease care.(Olwyn JohnstonJournal of Transplantation)Kidney patients have been waiting a long time to have in their hands a readable, authentic accounting of what kidney disease is all about and how patients cope with it... a masterful job to give lucid descriptions of the kidney's work and the consequences of renal insufficiency that we nephrologists commonly obscure with scientific word jargon. Thank you.(Jared Grantham M.D., Kidney Institute)As a medical researcher, the author has the unique ability to present the key relevant information in lay patient language. This book is easy to read for most kidney patients. It is clear that the author has had first-hand experience of renal disease (polycystic kidney disease) and subsequent care – having experienced renal dialysis and successful transplantation.(Nursing Times)