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I'd like to have a biopic not a biopsy

On September, 2003, I had a kidney biopsy to confirm my nephrologist's initial diagnostic findings. My biopsy required that I be confined in the hospital for 2 days. "Biopsy: The removal of cells or tissues for examination by a pathologist. The pathologist may study the tissue under a microscope or perform other tests on the cells or tissue. The diagnosis was done through a Renal Core Biopsy. The procedure did a Core Needle Biopsy of my Left and Right Kidneys and my clinical diagnosis revealed that I had T/C IgA Nephro. Diagnosis: IgA Nephropathy. As I recall, the procedure went like this: I was locally, anaesthesized first on my left lower back, vicinity of the kidneys. Though groggy with anesthesia I could here the doctors talking about the difficulty of getting the sample tissue from my left kidney. And so this time they decided to try my right. No go. It went on that way two more times on each kidney. But my kidneys were “slippery”? On the 7th and 8th incision they