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QJM Advance Access originally published online on December 9, 2008
QJM 2009 102(2):143-144; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcn134
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A conversation with the Emeritus about older kidneys

C.G. Winearls

Oxford Kidney Unit, The Churchill, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK

Address correspondence to C.G. Winearls, Oxford Kidney Unit, The Churchill, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK. email: chris.winearls@orh.nhs.uk

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He had guessed the sender from the handwriting on the envelope immediately. It would have ‘decorated’ his undergraduate physiology essays.

The card within had confirmed his surmise.

        Prof H. Methuselah DSc

    Emeritus Professor of Human Physiology

Dear Homer,

There is something personal I would very much like to run by you. How would this Saturday morning suit? Say 10.30? I’ll have the Fair Trade coffee percolating.

Yours ever,

Henry

Homer is not his real name but he had been allocated this soubriquet (in honour of Homer Smith the famous renal physiologist) by Henry, his physiology tutor, because he had expressed a special interest in the kidney. He now practises as a clinical nephrologist.

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