Epilogue

Abstract

Having sampled the Editors’ biases, both in topics selected and literature interpretation, you are free to test any of the myriad prevalent myths and shibboleths that permeate your personal practice of nephrology. Our intent was to portray the pragmatic reality that necessitates making a clinical decision in the absence of compelling evidence favoring one alternative over another. Whether opting for or against a renal biopsy in a patient with lupus nephritis, prescribing or avoiding fish oil for IgA nephropathy, or praising or condemning the American system of dialysis therapy, it should be starkly apparent that our choices result from passion and impression rather than validated truth or objective enlightenment.