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.
Conservative Management in End-stage Renal Disease: A Tale of Two Countries
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A recent study showed that healthcare providers have limited understanding of what patients want from a conservative kidney management (CKM) program
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Published on 02/07/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education Issues for patients and professonals,
Home Dialysis, Vocational Rehabilitation, and Law School
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I spoke with my Social Worker about programs to help train me to return to work,
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Published on 01/31/2019 by Charles Dimsdale
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education Issues for patients and professonals,
Loss of a Home Dialysis Icon – Goodbye, Bill Peckham
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It’s hard to even fathom the loss of a dialysis advocate as passionate and articulate as my friend Bill Peckham
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Published on 01/24/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
It IS a Laughing Matter: Using Humor to Cope with Kidney Disease and Dialysis
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there is now therapy called Humor, and it is both complementary and becoming mainstream medicine.
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Published on 01/10/2019 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Cannulation for Solo Home Hemodialysis: My Technique
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For a solo dialyzer, negotiating the wings to achieve this with one hand is a frustration.
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Published on 12/27/2018 by Ant de Villiers
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,