CRAIG’S LIST..SHOPPING FOR A KIDNEY
Click the link “Shopping for a Kidney” to view the CNN video on how a patient’s family used a unique approach to finding a match for their pre-dialysis loved one—through Craigslist. The match came from a perfect stranger in a completely different part of the country. A good Samaritan, Dawn Verdick (shown in the picture […]
YOU NEED MORE THAN LUCK TO GET A KIDNEY
Today in PD clinic almost every patient we saw is also either waiting for a transplant(20% are waiting for a kidney-pancreas transplant)or in the process of completing the workup.(DID YOU KNOW NATIONALLY PATIENTS ON PERITONEAL DIALYSIS ARE 50% MORE LIKELY TO GET A TRANSPLANT THAN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS?) A few of the questions we were asked […]
