Comments on: Conspiracy Theories, Reversing Kidney Disease, and Personalized Medicine http://trishatorrey.com/2008/05/06/conspiracy-theories-reversing-kidney-disease-and-personalized-medicine/ A blog about patient empowerment, advocacy, safety, consumerism and tools to navigate the dysfunction of American health care. Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:29:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jackie Aldridge http://trishatorrey.com/2008/05/06/conspiracy-theories-reversing-kidney-disease-and-personalized-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-40836 Jackie Aldridge Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:29:34 +0000 http://trishatorrey.com/?p=420#comment-40836 There are a lot of types of kidney failure. So I wonder about a claim that would say they can cure early kidney failure. Some examples of reasons for kidney failure: diabetes, apolipoprotein-L1 homozygosity (two genes) and unknown factors related to that, untreated high blood pressure, and strep or septicemia, excessive doses of Ibuprofen. Probably it's a misunderstanding? and they can cure some kind or kinds of kidney failure? I'd welcome any of them. Most doctors in medicine would. Dialysis is not all that profitable. Doctors don't control dialysis in most places, it's done by clinics. Very often large commercial clinics. One of the biggest has a very devoted doctor (who I interviewed with about ten years ago) and I know that guy lives and breathes keeping kidney patients alive and would give up his "profits" if he could cure them. Some of the other management created the company so they could offer leading edge dialysis medicine as well as improved standard treatments. They are all near retirement age and since the clinics are a success have made a lot of money. And they only run the dialysis clinics. So they don't have a say in where a patient goes. Or how the patient is treated in early stage kidney disease. Actually, even a nephrologist isn't going to see most patients in early stage kidney disease. They are going to be seen and treated by primary care and internists and other clinically based doctors. There are a lot of patients. The most grievious to me are the patients with type II diabetes (insulin insensitive) diabetes. If they knew what was coming they would do much more to stop the diabetes before it took them to kidney failure. Who wants to sit in a clinic every other day for four or more hours? There are a lot of types of kidney failure.
So I wonder about a claim that would say they can cure early kidney failure. Some examples of reasons for kidney failure: diabetes, apolipoprotein-L1 homozygosity (two genes) and unknown factors related to that, untreated high blood pressure, and strep or septicemia, excessive doses of Ibuprofen.
Probably it’s a misunderstanding? and they can cure some kind or kinds of kidney failure?
I’d welcome any of them. Most doctors in medicine would. Dialysis is not all that profitable. Doctors don’t control dialysis in most places, it’s done by clinics. Very often large commercial clinics. One of the biggest has a very devoted doctor (who I interviewed with about ten years ago) and I know that guy lives and breathes keeping kidney patients alive and would give up his “profits” if he could cure them. Some of the other management created the company so they could offer leading edge dialysis medicine as well as improved standard treatments. They are all near retirement age
and since the clinics are a success have made a lot of money.
And they only run the dialysis clinics. So they don’t have a say in where a patient goes. Or how the patient is treated in early stage kidney disease. Actually, even a nephrologist isn’t going to see most patients in early stage kidney disease. They are going to be seen and treated by primary care and internists and other clinically based doctors. There are a lot of patients.

The most grievious to me are the patients with type II diabetes (insulin insensitive) diabetes. If they knew what was coming they would do much more to stop the diabetes before it took them to kidney failure. Who wants to sit in a clinic every other day for four or more hours?

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