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Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease Rarely Use Hospice
A recent study shows that Medicare’s policy of precluding “curative” care in hospice is largely to blame
End-stage renal disease is a life-limiting illness in which the kidneys are no longer functioning, or are functioning so poorly that they can no longer do their job. In the absence of a kidney transplant, people with this condition require … Continue reading
The Endless Waiting of End Stage Renal Disease
Thousands of people are living on borrowed time awaiting a kidney transplant
End stage renal disease is the medical term for kidney failure, a condition that happens when the kidneys are no longer able to filter excess fluid and waste products from the blood. Untreated kidney failure is uniformly fatal. Other than … Continue reading
