ABSTRACT
In their book The Patient in the Family Hilde and James Lindemann Nelson recount the case of a man whose daughter is suffering from kidney failure.1 She is spending six hours, three times a week on a dialysis machine and the effects of this are becoming hard for her and her family to bear. She has already had one kidney transplant which her body rejected and her doctors are unsure whether a second would work but are willing to try if they can find a suitable donor. After some tests the paediatrician privately tells the father that he is indeed compatible.
