Patient Advocates and top burning questions for dialysis patients

Berriosa1234

As a community I have been thinking about patients who are on dialysis specifically but this can also be helpful for anyone with any organ transplant.

My question is what are the top 5 things that you consider about looking for a living donor for a kidney? What do you look to ask your providers about this big ask? As a patient are you more passive about asking? Or are you more aggressive? (not sure thats the exact word i want to use, but its what i first thought of) Would love this dialogue, I am interested in collecting information about finding the blindspots in healthcare and how we can fill those gaps with making sure the patient gets heard and their questions answered.

swiggan

I was passive about asking for a live kidney donor. I was reading the following article about different approaches in regards to starting that conversation.

How to Ask For a Living Kidney Donation | Temple Health

https://www.templehealth.org/about/blog/5-tips-on-how-to-ask-for-a-living-kidney-donation#:~:text=Be%20open%20about%20how%20you,and%20the%20living%20donation%20process.