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Grady Dialysis Patients Again Cut Off From Life Saving Dialysis

By On September 7, 2011 · 3 Comments

After two years Grady Hospital has refused to renew the contract with Fresenius for the dialysis care that the Grady patients with renal failure need to stay alive. Please sign this petition and call your senator or representative to protest this injustice and inhumanity.

Below is the press release from Advocates for Responsible [...]

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Please Don’t Let My Grandpa Die

By On August 26, 2010 · 7 Comments

Yesterday we converged at Emory University to present a letter to President Jim Wagner requesting that Emory join with other dialysis centers in Atlanta, GA to help provide care for the 33 dialysis patients whose extension of life-saving dialysis ends next week. We then traveled to the Fresenius Dialysis Center at 231 14th St in [...]

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Petition to Save the Grady Dialysis Patients

By On August 13, 2010 · 3 Comments

Sign the petition to save the Grady dialysis patients here.

After August 31, 2010, thirty three (33) uninsured End-Stage-Renal Disease patients of Grady Memorial Hospital will no longer receive their life-sustaining dialysis treatments.

- In September 2009, Grady Memorial Hospital closed its outpatient dialysis clinic. At that time the thirty three (33) uninsured patients, [...]

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Ade Abner Grady Dialysis Patient Speaks Out on Closing of Dialysis Clinic

By On August 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

and imminent sentence of death for 33 patients on Aug 31 2010. Interview by Grady physician Neil Shulman MD

Part 1

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Part 3

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Just Because I Want To Pull the Plug on Dialysis, They Call Me a Murderer?

By On July 29, 2010 · 4 Comments

Pete Correll, who heads up the Board of Directors of the Grady Memorial Hospital, which provides care for the indigent in Atlanta, GA, was behind the heartless decision to pull the plug on patients receiving dialysis, which is a life saving treatment. When confronted with this at a medical board meeting, when all of the [...]

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Power of Doctors is Eroding… Grady Death Sentence is Arriving

By On July 27, 2010 · 8 Comments

Neil Shulman MD gave a talk at a recent Emory Cardiology Research Conference about the plight of the Grady Hospital dialysis patients. (Read all of the posts about Grady dialysis here). A year ago, we the Grady patients received a death sentence after the board of directors decided to close the dialysis clinic and [...]

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Do I Have the Right to Live?

By On September 23, 2009 · 14 Comments

Today in Fulton County court the courtroom was packed with dialysis patients and advocates who were scheduled to have their dialysis turned off last week but for whom a temporary restraining order had kept the Grady clinic in Atlanta GA open until today, I guess. Lawyers for Grady Hospital argued that the patients don’t have [...]

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Dialysis Patients Face Certain Death Sentence

By On September 22, 2009 · 5 Comments

Last week I wrote about the situation of the Grady dialysis clinic which the Grady Board voted to close last week. This means certain death for patients treated there without insurance as the private dialysis clinics won’t treat the patients, and emergency rooms will only treat them if they are within two days of death [...]

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“I Need the Dialysis. I Think I Will Die.”

By On September 14, 2009 · 5 Comments

Today I attended a protest going on at Grady Hospital over dropping dialysis for non-US citizens and then we attended the open board meeting at Grady Hospital. You can get some background by reading ““Grady Hospital Tells Dialysis Patients to Leave or Die” in which I explain how Grady sent letters a couple of [...]

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