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"One of the Few" Palliative Care-Oriented Nephrologists
Annals of Long-Term Care is pleased to bring readers expert commentaries and podcasts through a new alliance with GeriPal, an online community of interdisciplinary providers interested in geriatrics or palliative care, featuring content written and curated by and for leading geriatricians in the field.
Today's GeriPal Podcast features Vanessa Grubbs, a nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She has blogged before for GeriPal (here and here).
Vanessa talks with us about her forthcoming book titled, "Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers," to be released June 13, but available for pre-order now.
Dr. Grubbs' book tells the story of her journey from primary care to nephrology to palliative care, of falling in love with a man to donating a kidney to him to marriage, and of the journeys of the diverse, older, complex patients she's cared for with chronic kidney disease, who sometimes choose not to start dialysis.
She is one of the few, "palliative care" oriented nephrologists in the US. We need more!
The transcript is below, though you'll miss Vanessa singing Prince if you only read!
Read the Podcast Transcript here
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produced by: Eric Widera
transcript edited by: Sean Lang-Brown
post by: Alex Smith
