Resumen de Give and let live
Kidneys are unglamorous organs, with their function of filtering the blood to make urine. When they stop working properly, perhaps due to inherited problems or because of other conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure, toxins build up in the blood. People get tired and sick, and without dialysis to remove the toxins they would eventually fall into a coma and die. Dialysis is life-saving but also inefficient and inconvenient. It usually entails going to hospital for several hours three times a week and only replaces a tenth of normal kidney function, so people still feel lousy, particularly in between sessions. Here, Wilson goes in search of the altruistic organ donors
