Dumb question: If my cancerous (presumably diseased) kidney is gone, do I have kidney disease?
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RadiologistsDjinnie said:Missed on Scan
Hi Texas, I know it is easy to miss something on a scan, and it often happens. However in my case they were supposed to be checking the right kidney for a tumour recurrence. The MRI which I had later showed the tumour smack bang on the old site. I was very angry at the time, but there is little point in fretting over it, you just have to deal with it. I consider myself lucky that they found it, albeit belatedly.
Djinnie x
I wonder if radiologists can be held accountable for malpractice? I know it doesn't help, really. But still, it sounds like malpractice.
Todd
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Malpracticetodd121 said:Radiologists
I wonder if radiologists can be held accountable for malpractice? I know it doesn't help, really. But still, it sounds like malpractice.
Todd
Of course they can - in principle - but being able to make anything stick is a different matter entirely!
Moreover, of course, there's a limit to what we should demand, in our own best interests - we don't want to set the bar of personal liability so high that we put prospects off from entering a crucially important medical field, or alternatively make them so frightened of litigation as to inhibit them in expressing their judgements.
I think that our best defence lies in having a well set up system with enough back up to allow adequate double-checking, ideally in the context of the MDT approach - multi-disciplinary teams, giving each case very thorough consideration.
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late to the partyanmazon said:butt ugly
Tillie, you are a beautiful soul, and, I am certain, a beautiful person, but I think everyone is butt ugly when they cry (and none so much as I).
I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't laugh.
Annie
But all the talk about chilli dogs got to me. So I heated up some pizza. I have excellent blood work so until something shows an issue, I live like I have a thousand years to go. I would go crazy counting calories, watching carbs and fats etc. Those weren't the factors that got me into this mess.
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Fox, I love your 'tudefoxhd said:late to the party
But all the talk about chilli dogs got to me. So I heated up some pizza. I have excellent blood work so until something shows an issue, I live like I have a thousand years to go. I would go crazy counting calories, watching carbs and fats etc. Those weren't the factors that got me into this mess.
And I hope to someday reach that point, but in the meantime, I'm jumping at shadows and scared spitless of about everything.
Except for the night of the Perro caliente con Chile.
Annie
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Deodorant Info from My Doc
Finally asked my doc about deodorant. I thought this was interesting. Definitely not going "French" though.
Concerns about antiperspirants and kidney disease were first raised many years ago, when dialysis patients were given a drug called aluminum hydroxide to help control high phosphorus levels in their blood. Because their kidneys weren't functioning properly, their bodies couldn't remove the aluminum fast enough, and it began accumulating. Scientists noticed that dialysis patients who had these high aluminum levels were more likely to develop dementia.
As a result, the FDA requires antiperspirant labels to carry a warning that reads, "Ask a doctor before use if you have kidney disease." Yet this warning is only meant for people whose kidneys are functioning at 30% or less.
In reality, it's almost impossible to absorb enough aluminum through the skin to harm the kidneys. "Unless you eat your stick or spray it into your mouth (DEFINITELY DON”T DO THIS), your body can't absorb that much aluminum," says nephrologist Leslie Spry, MD, FACP, spokesperson for the National Kidney Foundation.
Since there are probably many alternatives (or you could simply go “French”), I would probably make a change.
JD
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New deodorant...anmazon said:Deodorant Info from My Doc
Finally asked my doc about deodorant. I thought this was interesting. Definitely not going "French" though.
Concerns about antiperspirants and kidney disease were first raised many years ago, when dialysis patients were given a drug called aluminum hydroxide to help control high phosphorus levels in their blood. Because their kidneys weren't functioning properly, their bodies couldn't remove the aluminum fast enough, and it began accumulating. Scientists noticed that dialysis patients who had these high aluminum levels were more likely to develop dementia.
As a result, the FDA requires antiperspirant labels to carry a warning that reads, "Ask a doctor before use if you have kidney disease." Yet this warning is only meant for people whose kidneys are functioning at 30% or less.
In reality, it's almost impossible to absorb enough aluminum through the skin to harm the kidneys. "Unless you eat your stick or spray it into your mouth (DEFINITELY DON”T DO THIS), your body can't absorb that much aluminum," says nephrologist Leslie Spry, MD, FACP, spokesperson for the National Kidney Foundation.
Since there are probably many alternatives (or you could simply go “French”), I would probably make a change.
JD
I got this new stick deodorant today. The instructions said remove cap and push up bottom.
I can barely walk, but my farts smell awesome.0 -
Deodorantgarym said:New deodorant...
I got this new stick deodorant today. The instructions said remove cap and push up bottom.
I can barely walk, but my farts smell awesome.You had what they call a Mum Bum Gary:-) I hesitate to ask what you are using on you armpits!!
Djinnie x
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Sick humouranmazon said:Toothpaste
Yeah, then he pushed his deodorant up his bottom...
And then it got really ugly.
Annie
Huh!! and Gary and I get called 'the bad boys'!
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And we are here to stay!
Yeah!!!
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