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MD | Professor @CUDeptMed |#immigrant| 🇲🇽Latinx | Colorado | #healthjustice| #Kidneyhealth| community-partnership /avid runner
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’).

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