KidneyViews
Welcome to the non-profit Medical Education Institute's Home Dialysis Central blogspot! This page is an umbrella under which Home Dialysis Central staff and guests can share their perspectives about home therapies and what we need to do to raise their profile and enable more people to use them. We'd like your comments as well! Bookmark our site and like us on Facebook! Help us tell the world about home dialysis.
We have a "lifestyle bible" for sale that can help you learn about dialysis options. Help, I Need Dialysis! We also have prepared some slideshows on how to have a good future with kidney disease.
NOT. ENOUGH. DIALYSIS.
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At the end of the day, this is the question that prescribing nephrologists really need to ask themselves.
Published on 07/19/2018 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
The Joys and Cruelties of Medical Invention and Treatment Innovation
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One could argue that in the whole firmament of medical research, there is no greater tease than the search for a wearable, portable, implantable, bionic, or immunologically-neutral but transplantable kidney
Published on 05/31/2018 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
When Enough Becomes Enough for Home Dialysis
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how does a caring home team, supportive to the core with their home patients, tell a home patient that enough is enough at home ...
Published on 08/10/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: What is the best dialysis option for me , Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
Dialysis Supply Companies: You Have ONE Job
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What happened to the Gold Standard for customer service in dialysis?
Published on 05/11/2017 by Gale Schulke, RN, CDN
Santa and Christmas Miracles
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As Daniel took his turn on Santa's lap, he was asked a series of the usual questions from St. Nick, of course with the most important question being what he would like for Christmas.
Published on 12/22/2016 by Mark Kahre