Grady Hospital Dialysis Patients Have a Home - For Now

Last week I wrote about the ping pong match being played between Grady Hospital and Fresenius. Unfortunately, the ping pong balls were pati...

Playing Ping Pong with Desperately Ill Undocumented

22 patients with kidney failure, most of them undocumented immigrants, are being ping ponged between Grady Hospital , a huge safety net faci...

Dialysis, Immigration, and U.S. Law

Since 2007, I've written a series of posts about safety net care issues - most notably, the problem of providing dialysis to undocument...

Treating the Poor - No Good Deed Will Go Unpunished

Physicians and teachers are the focus of a major societal effort to reward excellence, encourage improvement, and weed out poor performers. ...

Death Postponed for Safety Net Dialysis Recipients

Uninsured patients with kidney failure - especially undocumented immigrants - who would be dead without dialysis, are caught between the fin...

The Looming Epidemic of Safety Net Hospital Dialysis Program Closures

I've done three recent posts on the crisis at Grady Hospital in Atlanta that has led to closure of its dialysis program. (See here , her...

Tragic Choices at Grady Hospital (3) - Brinksmanship with Human Lives

Grady Hospital has done the right thing, as I predicted it would in a post last week ( here ): Clearly, a safety net provider is accountable...

Tragic Choices at Grady Hospital (2) - Undocumented Patients with End Stage Renal Disease

As I've described in a previous post ( here ), Grady Hospital in Atlanta closed its dialysis clinic on October 3. Grady is a prototypica...

Tragic Choices at Grady Hospital

On October 3, Grady Hospital in Atlanta closed its dialysis clinic. Grady committed itself to cover the cost of dialysis for three months fo...

Immigrants, Refugees, and Medical Ethics

After I wrote yesterday's post about refugees and asylum seekers in the British National Health Service, I read a remarkable article in...

British GPs Demand Right to Treat Refugees

In January I wrote ( here ) about GP resistance to a proposed National Health Service directive that they not treat asylum seekers or undocu...

The Ethics of the Hospital Safety Net (3)

This is the third in a series of occasional postings about the U.S. safety net system. (See previous posts here and here .) Yesterday I met...

Civil Disobedience in the British National Health Service

This week the UK government considered ruling that GPs in the National Health Service will no longer be allowed to provide treatment to asyl...

The Ethics of the Hospital Safety Net (2)

The U.S. hospital safety net is under siege. Today’s New York Times reports on yet another safety net hospital - Grady Memorial Hospital in...

The Ethics of the Hospital Safety Net

Yesterday the Galveston County Daily News published an educative but heartbreaking story about the ethics of the hospital safety net. The U...