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Unlikely pioneers in renal transplantation: The Little Company of Mary Sisters

Jayant RadhakrishnanDarien, Illinois, United States Dr. Joseph Murray deservedly received the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his magnificent pioneering work in the field of renal transplantation.1 However, it is not widely known that religious sisters from the congregation of the Little Company of Mary also deserve much credit for their support of renal transplantation in…

April 29, 2020
Rethinking the impulse to empathize: a sister’s perspective on sympathy and stigma

Jeanne FarnanPennsylvania, United States “I am so sorry.” My youngest sister, Annie, was born during the spring semester of my first year of high school. These four words are etched into my memory, integrally intertwined with the events of that spring. “I am so sorry.” I remember these words so clearly because they clashed dramatically…

May 3, 2019

Unlikely pioneers in renal transplantation: The Little Company of Mary Sisters