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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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Should I Watch My Father Die Now?

By On September 8, 2009 · 15 Comments

After writing about the egregious goings on at Grady Hospital, which provides healthcare for the poor and indigent in Atlanta, GA, where they proposed denying dialysis patients to non-US citizens as a way to cut costs (which is a death sentence) (see “Grady Hospital Tells Non-US Dialysis Patients to Leave or Die“), I [...]

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Grady Hospital Tells Non-citizen Dialysis Patients to Leave or Die

By On August 19, 2009 · 31 Comments

Grady Hospital, the public hospital here in Atlanta GA that provides care for the indigent sick, has been having financial troubles in recent years with multimillion deficits. Now based on the recommendations of an outside consulting firm they have proposed saving money by denying dialysis treatments to Non-citizens. For those who are not familiar with [...]

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