September 2022 by Michelle Stevens
DaVita is unfortunately all about making money, patients come second. Peritoneal Dialysis is pushed onto people who should not be on it because they are medically fragile, it is just easier for the nurses, easier for the company. I lost my partner partly because no one there cared, he was valued for the six figures he made them every year from Medicaid. He gained 36 pounds of water the month before he passed and the new nurse (they are not paid well) did not know what to say or offer any kind of solution. His Nephrologist went on vacation and did not leave a number for another one to call. PD never worked for him, he never achieved adequacy in the 9 months that he was on it. Never- and no one said, hey you should be on hemodialysis. The truth is they knew, and they told me very coldly when they called 3 days after he died and wondered why he missed his MONTHLY appointment, no I am sorry, just, "well people die." Be your own noisy advocate, get on a transplant list as soon as you can while you are still in stage 4, the nephrologist never suggested that either. DO NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THIS IS A BUSINESS, NOT AN IOTA BETTER THAN BIG PHARMA.
