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Nadey Hakim. Nadey S. Hakim FRCS FRCSI FACS FASMBS (born 9 April 1958), is a British-Lebanese professor of transplantation surgery at Imperial College London and general surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic London. He is also a writer, musician and sculptor, known for kidney and pancreas transplantations, and being part of the surgical team that ...
The Giver Quartet. The Giver Quartet is a series of four books about a dystopian world by Lois Lowry. The quartet consists of The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). [1][2] The first book won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 10 million copies. [3][4] The story takes place in the world of The Giver.
The Giver. The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. In the novel, the society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their ...
Richard H. Lawler, M.D. (August 12, 1895 — July 24, 1982) led a surgical team at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Illinois, that performed on June 17, 1950, what Time magazine described as "the first human kidney transplant on record." [1] With surgeons James West and Raymond Murphy, Lawler transplanted a kidney from a just ...
Gathering Blue. Gathering Blue is a young adult - dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry and was published on September 25, 2000. [1] A companion book to The Giver (1993), it is set in the same future time period and universe, treats some of the same themes, and is followed by Messenger (2004) and Son (2012) in The Giver Quartet.
Kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organs in the United States with around 25,000 kidney transplants performed in recent years, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation ...
David M. Hume. David Milford Hume (21 October 1917, Muskegon, Michigan, United States - 19 May 1973), was an American medical doctor and pioneer in kidney disease research and treatment. [1] He was part of the team that performed the first successful kidney transplant. [2] Hume also published a landmark paper on renal transplantation.
Time to end that. Gannett. Jay Shooster. October 19, 2024 at 5:02 AM. There are around 50,000 Floridians living with kidney failure. In 2023, over 4,000 of them were on the waitlist to receive a ...