Dialysis Fistulas - Overview. 1  Hemodialysis fistulas are surgically created communications between the native artery and vein in an extremity. 2  Many patients who are not candidates for renal transplantation or those for whom a compatible donor cannot be secured are dependent on hemodialysis for their lifetime.
Remember the Maxwell House slogan, Good to the Last Drop? Of course you do, who could forget? Well, it is often claimed that Teddy Roosevelt, in 1907, coined the slogan after the coffee was served to him at the Hermitage, a famous Nashville resort that was originally Andrew Jackson's home.
Thatâs not the best slogan for selling coffee, however. At some point, probably during the 1930s, a legend was born that the president termed Maxwell House Coffee âgood to the last drop.â Times have changed: The Maxwell House Hotel burned down on Christmas night in 1961, and Maxwell House coffee, now owned by Kraft Foods, ceased being Americaâs best-selling coffee in the late 1980s. But the âGood to the last dropâ ad campaign endures. 5. Marlboro, the Marlboro man (1955)