Nephrology: 3. Safe drug prescribing for patients with renal insufficiency.

Presents the case of a febrile 33-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Symptoms including an infected ulcer on her right foot, lymphangitic spread to her knew, palpable groin nodes and an elevated leukocyte count with a neutrophilic shift; Diabetic complications including proliferative retinopathy and neuropathy; Discussion of drug treatment of renal insufficiency and calculation of creatinine clearance.