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When I think of Mr. Madani now, I am reminded of a joke I heard sometime after I was involved in his care: An oncologist walks into a funeral home, looking for his patient. The casket is closed. He opens it and is surprised to find it empty. “Where is my patient?” he asks the attendant. “I wanted to give him one more round of chemo.” “Oh, they took him to dialysis,” the attendant replies.
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Vanessa Grubbs (Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor's Search for the Perfect Match)