Patient Index Cards I

From Anthony Norden and Michela Wrong's Guide to the Catalogue: " File card boxes. I suspect Wrong relied on the large number of original hospital files which I know from personal observation were often in his study. What he appears to have done was to abstract much of this mass of clinical data onto file cards for each patient. This might seem a herculean task, but the key point was only to abstract that data strictly relevant to the research questions being addressed. The file-card is a simple way of doing this.

Within the four boxes of file cards (18-21), the cards are organised both by patient surname for patients with renal tubular diseases and by certain diseases, specifically primary distal renal tubular acidosis, labelled 'Total Primary dRTA'(within Box 20).

Of particular importance are the xxx family, xxx is the mother and there are three children also on the file cards. These individuals are 'Family B' in Wrong's very important paper describing mutations in the SLC4A1 gene in autosomal dominant renal tubular acidosis.

Wrong was, of course, a 'general' physician as well as a nephrologist. Because he directed the Department of Medicine and was in day-to-day charge of 'Medical Unit 1' in UCH his opinion was sought on a large number of general medical patients. He catalogued these in file box 21 but I suspect this is, for some reason, very incomplete. His Medical Unit would have seen many more patients than catalogued during his tenure; presumably only a fraction of the 'interesting ones' are included."

c. 1980

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