Abstract
Abstract Transplantation became a very large miracle, perhaps the least anticipated and potentially the most important one in the history of medicine. On September 23, 1984, two women were admitted to the Kidney Transplantation Unit of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). Faith T., a 29-year-old clinical dietitian from nearby Fremont, and Nancy P., a 31-year-old nurse from San Jose, were both long-standing diabetics suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and had been kept alive for the past year by frequent dialysis treatments. Their choice of hospital was easy. In both instances, physicians and dialysis nurses had strongly recommended UCSF, a world leader in renal transplantation and conveniently located nearby. Working in the health-care field, both Faith and Nancy knew about the institution’s famous surgeons and state-of-the-art technology. the 1930s.
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