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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.
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Learned Helplessness, the Mirage of Safety, and Home Dialysis
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Learned helplessness (LH), a term first used by two psychologists in 1967 studying learned behaviour in dogs, soon translated into human behavioural psychology.
Published on 06/05/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Patient Comfort: Dialysis vs. Cancer Treatment
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A recent topic in the Home Dialysis Central Facebook discussion group compared the very different atmosphere of cancer treatment vs. dialysis.
Published on 03/21/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
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.
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.
Published on 12/27/2018 by Ant de Villiers
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Telehealth for Home Dialysis
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Home dialysis patients will be able to choose to see their physician by telehealth starting on January 1, 2019.
Published on 12/20/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,