Leading British nephrologist who founded an internationally renowned kidney unit at Guy’s hospital in London
As a bright young doctor at Guy’s hospital in London in the 1960s, Stewart Cameron, who has died aged 89, was determined to be both clinician and researcher, but where should he focus his talents? Irreversible kidney failure – uniformly fatal until then – was just becoming treatable through dialysis or kidney transplantation; both were complex, demanding and dangerous, for patients and doctors alike.
Stewart had found his metier and decided to make renal medicine his life’s work. The first professor of renal medicine in the UK, he created at Guy’s a unit that became internationally known for its research and treatment of kidney failure.
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