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Patient SpeakerPlease note, this page is a summary of the full conference speech (click here for the full transcript). Maggie LoughranMaggie Loughran, the third patient speaker,
has first hand knowledge of diabetes leading to
kidney failure. From the age of ten for 27 years Maggie had diabetes.
She suffered kidney failure due to the diabetes and was on dialysis
for two years. After recovering from a stroke she went on to have
a kidney and pancreas transplant in December 2000. Three years later
she took up a post with Guy’s & St Thomas’s KPA
as Renal Information and Development Officer. At the Conference
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“It has always worked for me to find out where I am, to question
and challenge the things that are happening to me. It is my good fortune
that the people looking after me and around me allow me this freedom.”
Please note, this page is a summary of the full conference speech (click here for the full transcript).
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