"First, Do No Harm"

Do you know in the dialysis industry any patient can receive what is called an "involuntary discharge"?  Do you know what an involuntary discharge involves?  Basically it is when a dialysis clinic and/or doctor refuses to treat a patient.  A patient is basically "fired" from ever being treated in a specific dialysis facility and/or doctor ever again.  Do you understand what this means?  It means finding another doctor and/or dialysis facility somewhere close to where you live and getting all your records, insurance and transportation transferred over.  Currently there are approximately 400,000 dialysis patients in the U.S., yet in 2011 more than 440 dialysis patients received an ID.  Read this amazing and eye opening blog by Beth Whitten an social worker in Missouri who run the Missouri Kidney Program's educational services.  Thank you & Blessings, Amy

http://homedialysis.org/news-and-research/blog/60-involuntary-discharge-what-happened-to-the-oath-first-do-no-harm