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.
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Chronic Pain: Might People on Dialysis Benefit from Dr. Francomano's 5% Strategy?
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The global challenge to pain management has not changed since the 1970s when I worked for Dr. Berkowitz: we do not have an “objective” way to measure someone else’s pain.
Published on 01/06/2022 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Buttonhole Cannulation Revisited: A Procedure for Safe Scab Removal to Prevent Infection
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As with most trends in our society, things that were once given top billing fall out of the public limelight—and then resurface with a new look.
Published on 12/09/2021 by Peggy Bushey
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Just 5 Days Left to Choose a Health or Medicare Part D Plan for 2022!
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If you have Medicare Part A and/or B but don't have a drug plan as good as Medicare Part D, Part D can help you pay for your meds. Your drug plan should let you know each year if it is as good as Part D
Published on 12/02/2021 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Finding Empathy and Connection through Gratitude
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Forty years ago, Harold Benjamin described unwanted aloneness as one of the universal experiences of living with the effects of a life-threatening diagnosis, such as end-stage kidney disease.
Published on 11/25/2021 by Renata Sledge, PhD, LCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Will COVID-19 Finally Force the U.S. to Address Causes and Treatments for Kidney Failure?
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COVID-19 is having a huge, negative, long-term effect on those who are hospitalized with it and survive.
Published on 10/07/2021 by David Rosenbloom and Henning Sondergaard