MD | #immigrant| Latinx | Colorado | #healthjustice for #undocumented and #uninsured| #Kidneydisease| community-engagement |mom| runner| @CUAnschutz
Aug 21, 2020 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
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Meet Hilda. I was one of her doctors. When she died, she left 2 sons behind. My grief about her situation brought anger and then determination.
A #tweetorial on outcomes, advocacy, and policy in dialysis access for undocumented immigrants.
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Hilda suffered along with the other 80 undocumented immigrants with kidney failure, who in Colorado could only receive dialysis every 6 to 7 days when at the brink of death (=’emergency dialysis’).