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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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Glasgow: Wheelchairs, a Spitfire, and Mackintosh (Not a Raincoat)
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Located on the banks of the River Clyde, Glasgow became one of the greatest production centers of heavy engineering and shipbuilding in the world during the 19th Century.
Published on 01/28/2021 by Linda Chiavaroli , Henning Sondergaard and David Rosenbloom
Tags: Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better, Making dialysis better,
Patient Risks with Insurance Choices: Information for Social Workers
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Health insurance choices in the United States are very complex. I described insurance options for people with kidney failure in a recent blog entitled Insurance 101 for Dialysis Social Worker.
Published on 09/03/2020 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Tell CMS What Home Dialysis Machine Innovation Means to YOU
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I want to focus on just one aspect of the rule, because I think that giving your feedback—the patient’s perspective—to the CMS (Medicare) is vital for the future of home dialysis.
Published on 08/20/2020 by Eric Weinhandl, PhD, MS
Tags: Making dialysis better, How dialysis works, How to understand ‘bloods’ and other tests, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Advocacy for Better Home Dialysis: View from a 27-year Dialyzor
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Those who think the current generation of machines are bad have no idea how far they have come in three decades.
Published on 02/27/2020 by Michael Johnson
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Interpreting eGFR (and Other) Blood Test Results in CKD
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Seeing this has prompted me to write this post to try to correct the clear misconception that a change of a single point in an eGFR spells disaster…or, indeed, spells anything at all.
Published on 07/11/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,