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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
and imminent sentence of death for 33 patients on Aug 31 2010. Interview by Grady physician Neil Shulman MD
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Interview of me by Neil Shulman MD about my experiences with the pharmaceutical industry. Exclusive footage you won’t see on the mainstream media.
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The situation at Grady Hospital in Atlanta of cutting off dialysis for poor patients without insurance (which will make them, um, die) is an echo of the national political farse of throwing out public option health insurance and throwing more good money after bad (Karen Ignagni and her group of health insurance criminals). I [...]
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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 [...]
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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