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Palliative Care for Kidney Failure: Sam Gelfand, Kate Sciacca, and Josh Lakin
The landscape of options for treating people with kidney failure is shifting. It used to be that the "only" robust option in the US was dialysis. You can listen to our prior podcast with Keren Ladin talking about patients who viewed dialysis as their only option, and structural issues that led to this point (including this takedown of for profit dialysis companies by John Oliver). One of the problems was a lack of an alternative robust option to offer patients. As one of our guests says, you have to offer them something viable as an alternative to dialysis.
Today we interviewed Sam Gelfand…
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