Jo Karabasz, David White, Brian Carroll, Traci Evans-Simmons, Patrick Gee, and Bernard Zachary are among the millions of Americans living with …
Profit & Loss: America on Dialysis
37 million people are now confronting various stages of chronic kidney disease in the United States, and the numbers are continuing to grow. A new series from Undark Magazine and Scientific American examines the current state of chronic kidney disease treatment in the U.S., from diagnosis to dialysis, and from maintenance treatment to transplant. With support from National Institute for Health Care Management.
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Jo Karabasz knew her dialysis clinic well. Before switching to at-home treatment this summer, the former high school English teacher spent five and a …
When Jeffrey Berns first began practice as a nephrologist in the late 1980s, kidney disease in the U.S. was in the early stages of a stratospheric …
David White was first evaluated for a kidney transplant in 2011, but it would be four years before he got the call that his turn had come. In between …
In 2017, Traci Evans-Simmons could no longer avoid dialysis for her failing kidneys. She had lived with a condition known as glomerulonephritis, …
The phone call came on a sunny spring afternoon earlier this year. When Becky Swain answered, it was one of her husband’s fellow police officers. Bob …