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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2004) 19: 507-508
© ERA–EDTA 2004; all rights reserved

Obituary

Belding H. Scribner MD, 1921–2003

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Belding Scribner will always be remembered for development of the Teflon shunt in 1960 that first made long-term haemodialysis feasible for patients with chronic renal failure. However, this was only one of his many contributions to nephrology and bioethics over the next 43 years. Scrib, as he preferred to be called, was one of the giants whose impact on health care will always be remembered.

Scrib, born in Chicago in 1921, was a sickly child suffering from allergies, and this may have contributed to his ambition to become a physician. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, where his mentor was Thomas Addis. After holding a fellowship . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Christopher R. Blagg

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