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.
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,
In Case You Missed Them: 2021 Blogs by Dialyzors & Care Partners
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This year, 2/3 of our blogs were written by people who are living each day with dialysis.
Published on 12/23/2021 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Putting the Pieces Together: Our Evolving Teamwork
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In the next weeks, we went through Kubher-Ross’s five stages of grief in textbook fashion.
Published on 12/16/2021 by Philip Martin
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me,
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,
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,