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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.
Facing and Overcoming Needle Fear to Dialyze at Home
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I was so scared of the needling thing that I kept on with PD hoping & saying next month things would be better.
Published on 10/10/2019 by Stephen Hewitt
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Traditional Dialysis vs. Transitional Care for Urgent Starts
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You know nothing about kidney failure or treatment options and there’s no time to prepare or teach you.
Published on 10/03/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
I Want to Go Home
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My purpose—my mission—is to help my fellow CKD patients live satisfying and productive lives, to educate myself and others
Published on 09/26/2019 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better,
CMS-5527-P: Comments Submitted on the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model—Hemodialysis
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Six additions to the ETC model would first, materially increase the probability of shifting hemodialysis away from the present institutional in-center model to the lower cost home model
Published on 09/19/2019 by Mel Hodge
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Physician Bedside Manners and Ableism
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Knowing what a patient wants and expects is the basis for all respectful doctor-patient relationships
Published on 09/12/2019 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better,