Dr. David Walker Best MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
1800 Camelot Dr Suite 401 Virginia Beach VA, 23454About
Dr. David Best is a nephrologist practicing in Virginia Beach, VA. Dr. Best specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Best most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
In Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis In 1971
Indiana University School of Medicine 1971
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Are the Twelve Steps more acceptable to drug users than to drinkers? A comparison of experiences of and attitudes to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) among 200 substance misusers attending inpatient detoxification.
- Breaking the habit: a retrospective analysis of desistance factors among formerly problematic heroin users.
- New estimates of the number of children living with substance misusing parents: results from UK national household surveys.
- Assessing recovery and functioning in former problem drinkers at different stages of their recovery journeys.
- The recovery paradigm - a model of hope and change for alcohol and drug addiction.
- Online screening for alcohol and other drug problems: an acceptable method for accessing help.
- Alcohol, drug and related health and wellbeing issues among young people completing an online screen.
- Renal allograft rupture with iliofemoral thrombophlebitis.
- Renal allograft rupture with iliofemoral thrombophlebitis.
- Dursban effective for mosquito control in creek bottoms and duck ponds.
- A simple inexpensive system for the removal of excess anaesthetic vapours.
- A contact-dependent animal-to-vegetal signal biases neural lineages during Xenopus cleavage stages.
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