| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Dialysis misperceptions versus realities -- A visit to the suds factory : demystifying the machines and tubes -- Dialysis options : choosing what works best for you -- The decision to pursue a transplant -- The "K-Team" : working with dialysis professionals -- Dealing with emotions: the psychological impact of dialysis -- The impact of dialysis on interpersonal relationships : love, sex, family, and friendship -- Work and financial implications of being on dialysis -- Adapting to the dialysis diet, curbing liquids, and embracing exercise -- Traveling and planning for emergencies while on dialysis : taking a leap of faith. |
| Summary |
More than 400,000 people in the United States undergo kidney dialysis. If you or a member of your family are one of them, then the prospect of a regular appointment with a dialysis machine may seem like the end of life itself. But that reaction couldn't be more wrong. In Dialysis Without Fear, psychiatrist and dialysis patient Dr. Daniel Offer joins with his wife, Marjorie Kaiz Offer, and daughter, Susan Offer Szafir, to reveal how life can be lived--and lived well--on dialysis. Drawing on his long medical career and more than seven years of personal experience with dialysis, Dr. Offer dispels. |
| Subject |
Hemodialysis -- Popular works.
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Chronic renal failure -- Popular works.
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Renal Dialysis.
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Kidney Failure, Chronic.
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Hemodialysis.
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Chronic renal failure.
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Kidney Failure, Chronic.
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Renal Dialysis.
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Chronic renal failure. (OCoLC)fst00860126
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Hemodialysis. (OCoLC)fst00955014
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| Genre/Form |
Popular Works.
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Electronic books.
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Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
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| Added Author |
Offer, Marjorie Kaiz.
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Szafir, Susan Offer, 1971-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Offer, Daniel. Dialysis without fear. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780195309942 0195309944 (DLC) 2006102678 (OCoLC)77504461 |
| ISBN |
9780199724451 (electronic bk.) |
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0199724458 (electronic bk.) |
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0198042337 (electronic bk.) |
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9780198042334 (electronic bk.) |
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