Too Hot to Handle? Not all early nephrologists ‘fitted’ in the UK scene. Es Will describes four examples – unable to find the right niche here, they each worked abroad for much of their career. Why? Individual style and personality? Or perhaps the UK renal community should have done better to welcome them? Read on. ..
Too nice to resist? the use and abuse of pleasantries. Es Will considers how characteristics including pleasantries, charm and charisma influence our professional interactions. Read on….
An inadvertent place for ritual in renal replacement technologies: an unexpected exposure by historical clinical IT? Es Will points out that clinical computing was a valuable adjunct to haemodialysis from the 1980s onwards because it allowed documentation of the necessary repetition of a complicated but standardised clinical routine. In a non-medical context, such repetitive activity may be called ‘ritualisation’ and thinking of dialysis as ‘ritual’ has interesting social and healthcare implications for patients and staff. Read on……
Nephrological profit from Time to Tinker? Es Will & Nick Marks remind us of a definition of ‘tinkering’ as an intellectual and practical behaviour which has brought notable benefit to nephrology, for example in the development and refining of haemodialysis. Read on….
The glamour of the glomerulus? Es Will suggests that there may have been undue emphasis in UK renal medicine on the structure and function of the glomerulus. Read on …..
Last Updated on September 22, 2025 by John Feehally