This 2007 interview with Dr. Paul Teschan in his Nashville home records his remarkable career. Dr. Teschan describes winning a Science Talent Scholarship as a high school senior that provided the $2,400 to pay for his college education and also solidified his plan to pursue a career in science. He was not drafted into service in WWII due to his college and medical school education, so he enlisted in the Army and began work at Walter Reed Hospital in 1947. At this time the Army was very interested in dialysis treatment for combat-associated Acute Kidney Injury, so Dr. Teschan studied acute dialysis with John Merrill at the Brigham before opening and operating the first combat zone acute dialysis unit in Korea in 1952. In this interview Dr. Teschan describes his lifetime work in both acute and chronic dialysis treatment and research.
