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.
“I Never Acquired the Art of Losing” - My Ongoing Struggle with Kidney Failure
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“hope springs eternal.” We can do this, I am certain we can.
Published on 01/12/2023 by Jay R. Schuster PhD
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Understanding & Explaining Dialysis Charges & Payment
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Have you ever had a patient ask you ”How does Medicare (or insurance) cover and pay for dialysis?” Here’s how you can answer that question.
Published on 09/29/2022 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
View from the Chair: Dialyzors' Experiences of Options Education
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Has your nephrologist or anyone at your clinic adequately educated you on all your options, home dialysis, nocturnal, in center or transplant?
Published on 06/23/2022 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Dispelling PD Myths: Abdominal Surgery and Obesity
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Dr. Rob Quinn from Canada talked about the myth that patients with prior abdominal surgery or who are obese should not be offered PD.
Published on 06/02/2022 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Fistulas, grafts and catheters (including PD), Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Involuntary Dialysis Clinic Discharges: Can More Be Avoided?
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I recently read a post from a PD patient on the Home Dialysis Central Forum who was involuntarily discharged (IVD) from his clinic and couldn't find another one willing to accept him.
Published on 04/14/2022 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,