DIRTY DIALYSIS BUSINESS (ALL ABOUT THE $$$?) - with Dr. Tom Mueller
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 เม.ย. 2024
- The way dialysis patients are treated is terrible! The 2 major dialysis companies, Fresenius and Davita, both billion dollar corporations, have taken advantage of dialysis patients for decades. Several whistle-blowers have come forward revealing the corruption inside these dialysis companies, only to social destroyed by the companies. Dr Mueller is leading the way in uncovering the corrupt practices of Davita & Fresenius in his book and on social media.
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Dr. Tom Mueller is a New York Times-bestselling writer and investigative journalist whose work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Atlantic and elsewhere; and who has appeared on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, PBS’s Amanpour & Co and other shows. Tom’s most recent book is How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine (W W Norton, Aug 2023), about dialysis in America and the crisis of money-centric US medicine. His previous books are: Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud (Penguin Random House, 2019) on whistleblowing and corporate corruption, which also extensively discusses medical fraud, waste and abuse; and Extra Virginity: the Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (W W Norton, 2011) about international food fraud seen through the lens of extra virgin olive oil. Before journalism, he worked as an associate at the investment bank Goldman Sachs; earned a PhD at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard as an undergraduate.
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When I started learning about nutrition, I stopped trusting dieticians, when I was planning my pregnancy, I stopped trusting obgyns, when I had my son, I stopped trusting pediatricians. I'm beginning to believe the entire medical system needs to be started over from scratch.
And now DEI mandatory. That means no accountability,
They study Medicine. It's a clue.
@@lakshmiu1841what is DEI?
Modern medicine is chemotherapy.
Thats treating disease with chemical drugs. Read a medical book. There is little to no nutrition, toxicology, exercize information given. There are times for toxic drugs but that should be after or with lifestyle attempts to regain health.
Hiring based on race, gender, etc.
I’m going through this now my wife was fooled by her kidney doctor and wouldn’t listen to me I told her both kidney disease and diabetes could be cured on carnivor diet which she tried for 2-3 wks and lost weight but she felt better her doctor told her she had to go through dyalisis (her doctor owns the facility everyone was against me and with the doctor I’m 78 lost 50+ lbs A1c 5.0 my skin is smooth and it’s killing me to see my wife go down hill finally my family is starting to see the doctor doesn’t walk on water hopefully my wife will start listening to me before it’s to late
Drs don’t own the facilities. Fresenius and DaVita do , they work for them , work w them , and are paid a very very hefty salary to manage the clinic 400, 000 is the last I heard for a year. , but the nephrologists can see their patients there instead of in the office. Very rarely are they in the office , they are usually at their clinics …
Praying for your wife to take another look at your success with eating properly and that the scales be removed from her eyes to see clearly the fact that, NO, these doctors do not walk in water. God bless us all. So many of these physicians are genuinely ignorant, they just don't know better.
Praying for you and your wife. So glad that you are doing well on the carnivore diet.
Praying for you friend. 🙏
Praying
I was an RN that ran a clinic for one of the major companies. The corruption and fraud was staggering. I quit. I wanted no part of it.
Good for you! This is so evil!
Write a book and spread the word. Do interviews. Share your experience!
Same here. My conscience doesn't allow me to be involved in criminal medical activities.
I’m currently an RN for one of the big companies for just over 2 years. I’m so exhausted! Since I graduated and started working in the medical field, I see how corrupt the medical system in general is. And how intertwined the medical, pharmaceutical, food, etc. industries are. I’m looking to transition into more “preventative” care. I want to help people, but I’m so tired of the “sick care” model we live in. I care for my patients so much but the company cares primarily about the money and the numbers. It’s exhausting. I want to teach people how to prevent getting to the point of needing dialysis or other treatments for chronic disease in general. They want us sick, not dead. There is no money in health.
@@BuzzMoves365 hopefully not at her own risk, as well, sad to say.
The LOVE of money is the ROOT of ALL EVIL.
That Bible passage was one of my Mother’s most quoted.
She was wise beyond her yrs, but didn’t realize the extent ❤of
I think PRIDE is a close runner-up :-)
Yes!
Agree 💯
Right!
People are given drugs that screw up the kidneys, then go to dialysis while remaining on the drugs that caused them to be there. 🥺🤬
It's maddening
Exactly😢
And often never know about the meds in the first place
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Correction: people go about not caring about treating their high blood pressure and/or diabetes, and end up on dialysis. Some people do get kidney failure from antibiotics, but for the most part, these drugs you're talking about to control your BP and diabetes, are actually protecting you from developing kidney failure.
Source: me, an HD RN for 12 years.
Make this easy: ALL medical care is about the money, not your health.
I live in the UK now. Lots of problems with our health system here, yes, but still--a lot of problems are eliminated by restricting profiteering in healthcare...
Expensive, inefficient treatments are questioned, whereas in the States there are often incentives to put costly solutions into place.
We have incentives for cheap preventative care, whereas in the States there's a lot of profit to be made by situations getting worse...
When we try to cut things, we have to consider how it may lead to other higher health costs later, or other types of government costs (e.g. someone becoming long-term disabled and requiring government housing).
Things don't always work well, there are some nasty companies creeping in, but... it's still so different. US felt more like a financial system that employed doctors...
Oh yes
Yes and guess what. The U.S. funds Israel's free national healthcare while here in the states we have to pay for everything. This is treason!
everything in a free market economy is about profit. even in the healthcare, i don't think you are going to demand doing so much work for a patient and then cms the "payer" says they will only pay the clinic their cost and sometimes below-cost. then this is not a free market. this doctor is promoting his book i bet you he is not offering the book for free and not even at cost. and as cms employee told the author of the book every year you prolonged the life of the patients it's a cost to "them". the other solution is to increase medicare taxes on the working class which certainly no one will like or no aid to foreign countries which i would support in a heartbeat 👍👍👍
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One correction. The goverment doesn't pay for anything! It's the American taxpayer that pays for all goverment programs. Give credit where it's due.
The transfer of wealth from the working class to billionaires.
@@alanj9978 ??
And once you understand that, EVERYTHING makes sense.
Theoretically that's true. The Government IS supposed to be "the people." However, now the government is just a collection of stooges owned by Wall St. corporations and the Israel and weapons lobbies. Most government programs are now fully corrupted.
A technical point but a good one! "Tax dollars" feel like "other people's money" -- inc. to Medicare. "My tax dollars" is another matter.
I’ve noticed pharma commercials now don’t even tell you what the medication does. They just show people enjoying their life laughing and dancing and singing, then tell you to just ask your doctor about using the drug. This should be illegal
Gets me upset if I see them. It’s sickening but this is the broken world we live in.
Not only that listen to all thise side effects they list
They're no different than an illegal drug dealer promoting their drugs.
Agree. Forgot which great MD it was who said, every medicine has side effects . . . but so true!
It’s practically every commercial!! If you visit other countries, these kinds of commercials are not allowed. Big pharma can’t advertise their newest formula of and older formula. I get so angry
I'm tired of the medical system!!!
This is cattle call medicine. From VA x xes given at the parking lot at a shopping mall to dialysis centers. Dr.Shiva Ayadurai is the only Presidential hopeful advocating personalized medicine. Why not anyone else???
But are you calling for a full public healthcare that isn't subject to all of these brutal profit motives?? No you aren't are you because you watch Fox News because you're not a smart person.
The only thing that would stop this is a full public healthcare alternative. It won't be perfect, but it is necessary. Are you finally calling for that or do you want more people to die needlessly because private medicine sees them as expendable??
@@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago Australia has public healthcare yet pharma still pays doctors commission on drugs. Still no cures (from them), still corrupt. Now that we know how to heal ourselves we don't need to give a crap..
biofilm, medical gaslighting, medical upcoding
My dad went on dialysis in 01 but my mom had been a dialysis nurse in the 80s and I knew quite a good bit about the subject by default. They told my dad he absolutely would not live without it but he'd started going into A-fib nearly every time he'd do a treatment so, after some careful consideration we opted to stop treatments and see what happened. Long story short, he lived 3yrs without dialysis after having done it for 2yrs before stopping. The Lord gave my dad that victory for his faith I believe.
Now I understand why my grandmother chose death instead of dialysis.
biofilm -> kidney failure, read about it for 5 minutes.
I work in healthcare for specialists and I’d say about 85% of our patients have preventable conditions
85%?
I work in Medicine and I know it is 95% plus preventable…
But there is no Fucking Profit in being healthy for the Criminal Medical System…☠️☠️☠️
True
How many are willing to do just the basics to prevent those diseases?
Quit smoking, quit doing drugs, cook at home instead of fast food and junk food, exercise regularly, quit drinking…as in exercise personal DISCIPLINE.
@@aao449- Not many…I have 3 friends who have diabetes, and another friend who is on dialysis 3 times a week……I’ve been telling them for years about Keto and Carnivore…they continue to eat carbs, and especially sugary junk, daily.
I stopped eating out,cooked at home, stopped all ice cream the cholesterol went back to normal range in 6 months.
Evil, and corrupt medical SYSTEM.😢
Carnivore Drs like Chaffee , Berry , Baker are part of that establishment.
Not sure about Baker tho , does he still have his medical licence?
big pharma Rockefeller UN WEF Agenda of medicine!
Don't blame the system -- blame the world's most addictive substance, sugar.
Agree
Agree
And yet, people refuse to give up eating sugar which causes this mess in the first place.
sugar is the most addictive thing I've ever had.
@@nevinkuser9892 as bad as cocaine
@@GuitarsAndSynths cocaine is actually better for you than sugar
@@GuitarsAndSynths Sugar is worse than cocaine. Far worse.
My Brother-in-law uses 3 times a Normal amount of Insulin every single day , so that he can drink his Lemonade and Sodas
Listened to the entire interview.
Now it's a little clearer why nephrologists are not excited to learn I've helped a patient reverse their failing kidneys with keto/carnivore. So sad!
Ordered two copies and will be showing his book to patients with the hope it will motivate them to adopt a lower carb dietary approach.
Love Dr. Hampton! I wish we had more Dr's where I live like Dr. Hampton and Dr. Berry.
This is cattle call medicine. From VA x xes given at the parking lot at a shopping mall to dialysis centers. Dr.Shiva Ayadurai is the only Presidential hopeful advocating personalized medicine. Why not anyone else???
@@angelacovington3399can you just imagine how wonderful a world would be 😊
I was told that read meat raies potassium levels .. confused here
@@Skwarek-wp8dc I'm eating carnivore AND taking a BP med that retains potassium... I still have to supplement potassium. Hogwash.
I had a friend that got untreatable kidney disease and he went to 3 top drs in Texas
He refused to take their answer and went to a nephrologist at Johns Hopkins
He told him there was no study but he could change his diet and get some exercise and the goal was to keep dialysis off as long as he could
He did exactly what the dr said he was in his early 30’s now this is 30 years later and his kidney function has never declined
He asked for his complete documentation and he can’t get it because they said it was part of a study
He was confused about Johns Hopkins refusal
He’s living proof that it can work
He can get his records by “formally” request them. Study the “HIPPA LAWS” they are not informing him of how to get them! Just learn the steps to take to get them!
And he should have known if he was in a study. He would have had to sign a Consent form. Thankfully he is healthy for all this time!!
Jon Hopkins = WEF
I'm sure he can get them by making a FOIA request. Sounds suspicious.
Oh, for some punctuation
I'm 48, the Doctors have been telling me for the last 10 years that I have the kidneys of a 65 year old man, whatever that means. Carnivore diet reversed my kidneys issues significantly.
What are you eating most..
I'm 66 and my Doctor always warned me about my Declining Kidney and Liver Function , I'm Carnivore 6 months and my Full Body Panel Blood Test is Near Perfection across the Board.
Dropped 335 to 240 BP from 165/90 to 117/74
Total Cholesterol down to 150
A1C from 6.4 to 5.1
resting Glucose 81
My Doctor is actually Pissed Off that he couldn't put me on the 4 Drugs that he wanted to
@@hassanshuaibu351eat red meat 🥩 or MEAT
@@paulhailey2537I know how that feels my cardiologist keep on pushing ripatha injection for my cholesterol,I’m allergic to all po meds, his answer is injection, I refused he keeps on scaring me and just looking at LDL AND TOTAL CHOLESTEROL.
@@paulhailey2537 He would be pissed, doctors earn a lot from scripts.
I’m an administrator at a mid sized hospital and Nephrology is one of my divisions. Thank you for providing this information. Our biggest obstacle to moving patients to home dialysis- are the patients themselves. They want the brick & mortar dialysis. I’m going to review our education process and materials. We also partner with nutrition- but I do not know what is being taught. I’m going to find out. ❤
This is leadership, kudos to you ❤🥩
I think it is intimidating to patients. My dad just received his 2nd kidney transplant so has done dialysis twice at brick & mortars. Home dialysis was intimidating to him & didn't like that it was everyday at a specific time. He obviously did not understand that slow is better
You can be guaranteed they are teaching the misanthropic “guidelines “ foods…ADA approved ( Accelerate Diabetes Association)!
THANK YOU!!!!
Good for you for broadening your knowledge base to do what’s best for your patients. I retired recently after 40 yrs as a critical care/trauma RN who had lots of patients on acute hemodialysis. I swallowed all the academic, allopathic medical doctrines for 40 yrs. Covid woke me up big time! I now sadly understand that while there are caring and compassionate providers, the system is built solely on profit, not cure. If we would only teach proper nutrition our epidemic of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, metabolic disease would dramatically decline. Instead, the food industry has captured the FDA and other regulatory agencies and recommends huge amounts of carbs and sugar in our daily diet. It’s criminal.
This is another "why" to stay healthy, eat right, exercise, and live a proper human life. I never want to have anything to do with dialysis.
This is cattle call medicine. From VA x xes given at the parking lot at a shopping mall to dialysis centers. Dr.Shiva Ayadurai is the only Presidential hopeful advocating personalized medicine. Why not anyone else???
Absolutely the best thing to aim for: keep your kidney, those wonderful little directors of our body's grand orchestra!
That's a great attitude; stay hydrated and keep your BP and blood sugar under control, and you'll be fine.
Source: me, an HD RN for 12 years
Hiw do you keep touVP under control when you're doing everything possible to kit that way but continues to go high with meds
Waeryuioxcvbunuinkioaxz❤🎉😅
I was an RN for DaVita for 10 years. Thank you for shedding light on this! All you say is true! I've heard dialysis treatments in Europe are much longer,gentler treatments. I was a dialysis nurse through covid. DaVita had a policy that stated staff would be compensated at time and a half during an 'emergency situation'. They changed their policy shortly after pandemic started- realizing how much it would truly cost them. That cost them nursing staff! Including myself! Rarely would nephrologists tell their patients what dialysis was REALLY going to be like. Most of my 10 years was spent in acute dialysis- in hospitals. Shortly before I left the field there was a big push by Medicare to move patients to home dialysis,saving them millions . It truly is a miraculous treatment but very abused as a cash cow for greedy doctors.
I was diagnosed with diabetes last December. I realized immediately that I was the cure. I asked the nurse how many dialysis patients were faced with the same choices I have. She said probably all of them. My A1C has dropped from 14.7 to 6.3. I still have a ways to go. Yet I'm not far from being non diabetic.
What did you start doing? Please provide details. How did you drop your A1 C?
Good for you!
Start walking & reduce carbs & sugar I was a 12.1 and dropped to a 6.5. Drink lots of water, within reason.
@@jalove7 cut out all sugar, drastically reduce or cut carbs and increase healthy fats.
Great job 👏 👍
My mom was on Dialysis for 19 years before she passed. She took her care seriously and would tell the tech and the doctor to slow the machine down if they ran her to high… At her funeral her doctor said he felt he lost a colleague…. She would help the other patients advocate for their treatment as well.
What a great mum🩷
Wow, wish l understood and knew more so I could have a conversation with the clinic doctor and staff about my dialysis.
Your mother was clearly in one of the excellent dialysis centers in America (the ones that do NOT feature in my book). She educated herself to know what was going on. Her nephrologist paid close attention to what she was feeling, and adjusted care accordingly. Nephrologist and staff all welcomed (or at least accepted!) patient input. This is fantastic care. And lo and behold, your mother lived 19 yrs on dialysis, as compared with 5 year avg mortality for US patients
How do these clinic owner/ operators sleep at night. Profits over people’s lives. Good luck with that outcome for them when they meet God at judgement. What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his immortal soul.
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My brother is a lifelong kidney patient. He has alienated hospitals because he wont just put up and shut up. His small town dialysis center closed last year leaving him one option, getting treated in the city 4 hrs away. He took to the media. Shouting to anyone who would listen. It took a few months of spending weeks in the city, but they eventually set him up to do dialysis at home.
Judges and lawyers should not be able to own shares in jails and prisons also. This is rampant. It's not just medical!!!!
Yes thank you for exposing this . They call this piece rate in a factory .
secret societies dummy, and prisons keep people safe, look into the entertainment industry, look at how dangerous the 1980s were
I am an RN. What is troublesome is that there is more dialysis clinics, than programs for diabetes prevention. I worked for a dialysis company years ago (non clinical) and what I noticed that most of the patients' comorbid was Diabetes. The government-CMS should focus on diabetes prevention.
That would not be profitable for the companies 😢
The bottom line is making money. Diabetes is healed by not eating carbs
The prevention of diabetes through low carb ketogenic diet treats many diseases. The common factor in these chronic conditions / diseases is the destruction of micro capillary networks by high blood levels of glucose and plant oils.
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Precisely.
I thank President Biden for the cap on insulin. Thank you
I'm watching my father die slowly. He was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, then had SARS 20 years ago, that led to progressive health problems. His diabetes doctors had him on a 200 carb per day diet, and then were shocked when he went blind and his kidneys failed. He has been on dialysis for 18 months now, and he has very poor quality of life. He has quit eating anything except small amounts of desserts, and sleeps all the time. He has gone from a vibrant, vigorous man to this feeble shell of himself. It breaks my heart! The dialysis center sends home recipes for him to eat and they are nothing but sugar. The whole situation is sickening.
Carnivore bro !!!! Man I hope it’s not too late and he will eat meat lost my dad last year to diabetes kidney failure I wish I knew about carnivore not until I got diabetes did I do my research
I’m praying you can help get meat into him and reduce the sugar desserts
So disheartening to hear of your dad's failing health!
No carbs n sugar..Look up Dr.Richard Bernstein, diabetic since age12 now98 n running a clinic.
My dad has heart disease from agent orange and had a nine bypass back in the 80s, I was exposed to agent orange I'm 52 and have heart disease currently and they exactly tell me the same thing because I'm 120 lb at 5 ft 7 with Non-Hodgkin's that it doesn't matter what I eat as long as I'm getting calories. Because I only wanting ice cream and desserts which I normally don't ever have sugar in my diet or crave it but I have been tremendously craving it recently. If they actually cared they would say no you're supposed to eat for minerals and nutrients not for calories. Even the gods love we deliver company that delivers my ready-made meals the food is garbage!! What's a post on their website for the menu is nowhere near the garbage that we get! You get corn flakes in a little plastic container with a 1% milk individual drink for breakfast, lunch is pureed anything black beans maybe butternut squash maybe caramelized onion and they put it in a plastic container and it equals about a cup and a half of soup with one roll that's lunch and dinner is a frozen meal with the same exact pre-packaged mixed vegetables with the zucchini that's ribbedgreen beans and maybe some lima beans and then on the other side of the container you might get a third of a cup of quinoa with maybe chickpeas. It has me curious as to how much my insurance company pays for this when I'm supposed to be getting blueberry pancakes for breakfast and eggplant Parmesan for dinner with a dessert I get none of that. Every single non-profit every single medical anything everything that claims to be out there to help for people is just a racket so they can still 85% of the monies that they get either in taxpayer subsidies or donations!
This is kinda long but is my cautionary tale. No kidney function, no warning. I was on dialysis for 10 years, 3-4x a week, 3 1/2 hour sessions. Total kidney failure from a lifelong struggle with DiabetesT2 and obesity, after trying every diet & "failing" since age 12. The staff was nice but very understaffed & rushed from patient to patient, with only one nurse supervising, and I personally saw an unknown-to-me doctor visiting maybe 2x a year. Was told I "might" get a kidney after 2 1/2 years. Nope. Was NEVER told 1-that I could get better so I should just wait for a transplant ...2-that a low-carb diet could reverse DiabetesT2 or that I should restrict carbs at all [just calories as per usual a failing strategy following the ADA diet], just fluids & salt... 3-that my veins overall [including penile] would permanently suffer greatly from the fast removal of excess fluid [& urine]...4-I would never qualify for a transplant at 245+ lbs unless I lost weight from a lap sleeve gastrectomy [removal of 75% of my stomach, which I did qualify for after ballooning to 360+lbs, which STILL required me STARVE myself down to 245lbs before qualifying...5-that people would die at the dialysis clinic [people did]...6-that if I got a transplant any related care would not be covered after 3 years until I aged into Medicare or proved poverty. During dialysis both of legs were amputated, I was confined to a motorized wheelchair, & I lost vision in my right eye, was very depressed & sometimes felt suicidal. Carb addiction kept me spiraling, and more & more injectable insulin was needed to control a highly elevated A1C [12]. I was lucky enough to finally qualify & receive a very good kidney. I decided to protect it to prolong my life, & chucked prevailing medical "wisdom" by following a ketogenic eating plan, now ketovore almost 7 years, A1C 6.0, no insulin. My [required] nephrologist doesn't approve but cannot argue with success, haha. Now 66 & 9 years post transplant with a monthly infusion of Belatacept[Nulojix] to prevent rejection, with 30 monthly labs indicating excellent kidney function, expectation about 18 years before failure, I'm hoping longer. I won't return to dialysis when this kidney fails as I am unlikely to qualify for a 2nd kidney. Walking on prosthetic legs, no more wheelchair, weight 180lbs. "IF" A HIGH FAT DIET GIVES ME A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK [haha, no sign of any heart disease, hypertension, or high blood pressure, so far] I will welcome it. Sounds dark, but life is so much better as a "normal" weight ketovore, and I'm making the most of it. The very best to all of you, and especially Dr. Ken Berry. 😊😊❤❤
Wow, thanks for sharing.
Congratulations for being so strong 💪!👍💯
Thanks for sharing & god bless you
Wow! Wow!!! I’m a dialysis nurse and been waiting for this a long time ago!!!!
I would never go into dialysis. It may prolong your life a bit, but what kind of life is that? I will move on when God calls me home. Until then, I'm Carnivore.
Sorry to say I said the same thing.
But I'm in a dialysis chair waiting on a transplant.
Your family may feel differently
Well, you maybe at home self dialyzing, but you can still watch y tube.
I'm stage 5 and I've refused dialysis. Was diagnosed 12/2023. I'm doing fairly well. God is in control.
I thank God and the PHD for saving me from this horrible path. Thank you, Dr. Berry for having this guest to enlighten us.
This is cattle call medicine. From VA x xes given at the parking lot at a shopping mall to dialysis centers. Dr.Shiva Ayadurai is the only Presidential hopeful advocating personalized medicine. Why not anyone else???
So glad our conversation was helpful, Cathy!
I worked for Fresenius medical care as a reuse tech then they trained me to be a patient care tech, my goal was to become a trauma nurse. Where do I begin the amount of stuff I saw the nurse do that jeopardize the patients live was unthinkable, from gross cross contamination going from sticking patients to the cart without changing gloves now mind you several of our patients were hepatitis positive as well. If the dialysis machine would start beeping they would try to clear it, but if it kept up they would add bicarbonate to the premixed solution the machine was taking in which would basically change the perception or enrich the amount which made the machine stop beeping but could change the amount patient was getting which obviously could cause a heart attack or stroke. When i would question them and tell them they cant do that they would tell me what do I know im just a PCT patient care tech and a reuse tech. I would explain when you add an unmeasured amount of bicarbonate directly in to the jug on the machine it changes the amount of total dissolved solids in the water which changes the formula the patient was receiving.... it was a mess they didnt care at all just turn and burn. We had a patient go from fine to sick on treatment and dead 2 days later in my opinion it was due to cross contamination.
One time i came to work and the nurses were using a wooden mop handle to mix up bicarbonate in the machine because the mixer breaker was tripped and they didn't know how to reset it. Well the wooden mop handle was the same mop used to mop up blood clots in my reuse room where the artificial kidney ls were cleaned. I came unglued and screamed wtf are you all doing this is a bloddy wooden mop handle and this gets infused into the patient. They said well we bleached it 1st I said its WOOD. I have never see so much lack of patient care and when i went to thr area supervisor Mary Sisco she seemed to not care at all... i later transferred to another clinic in the next town but same company and low and behold the same lack of patient care... i eventually quit as i couldn't stomach the patients behing so vulnerable and nurses not truly caring.😔😢
Holy cow! Just horrible!
What a nightmare 😢
What you're describing is having a machine's bicarb run out, then adding pure bicarb packets to get the machine back to the right conductivity? Who does that? That is stupid to do. Also, why would the nurses be concerned about bicarb in the back? That's not an RN's job in any clinic I worked at. Sounds like a mickey-mouse operation
As a dialysis nurse I worked both acute in the hospital and chronic in the clinic. Clinic was definitely unprofessional compared to hospital. Drug dealers were fanned over by female techs while ignoring other patients. But I didn't see any unethical behavior by nurses only techs and doctors. Even doctors fanned over drug dealers I think they were paying cash.
God bless You, for telling this, but the sad part is many people will suffer at hands of the negligent staff. One day they too WILL wind up there for treatment
I worked in healthcare for 25 years. An occasional dialysis patient. I worked physical therapy. I did not know anything about this. But sadly, I can’t say that I’m surprised. The healthcare system is so broken in our country. Money is above everything. It got to the point where when we got a new patient. The first thing we looked at was not their diagnosis or their age or whatever, it was what insurance they had. Because that dictated everything. From how many treatments they had to what we could do, etc. That’s not how medicine should be. You do not get paid for education. Insurance dictates everything you can do. It’s disgusting. So you try to do what you can but it’s disheartening. There’s a lot of people working in the healthcare system right now that are very disenfranchised and disheartened.
Dr. Siripala a nephrologist in Altoona, PA told my Dad 18 years ago he had kidney failure and would need dialysis with 6 months or less. I took him to Hershey Medical Center where he was diagnosed with Wegners and began treatment there. He just finally had to begin dialysis last year. Over 17 years later than he was told. Dr Siripala owned 3 dialysis clinics and was single handedly responsible for thousands of patients being run through his dialysis mills. He certainly has blood on his hands.
This is an outrage! How does this guy sleep at night? Thank you for sharing and exposing this corrupt dr and industry! More need to speak out. They are killing people for profit. God help them!
Hershey always did ok by my son🩷 I just wish there were more doctors in PA like the mainstream carnivore docs🫤
was he indian? there are tons of indian nephrologists that i donr trust at all.
I started having kidney issues in high school. I found out a few years later that I had Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (MPGN). Essentially the filtration system scarred over so I didn't have output. I spent 5 years on dialysis waiting for a transplant, 9 years later it failed. I spent an additional 3 years on dialysis. I've had this transplant for 17 1/2 years. I wouldn't wish dialysis on anyone.
Thank goodness for your transplant!!
I'm on my 2nd kidney transplant. It's from a friend, not a family member. I'm back in Stage 5 failure, 8 yrs now, but the transplant was 20 years ago.
Do what you can to save that kidney. And, FYI, Prograf is nephrotoxic....saves and kills the kidney. Don't take too much.
You're a trooper, I'm glad you got your transplant 👊🏻
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This was highly informative. Years ago my father was on dialysis and it was just shear torture. He was so miserable and had no quality of life, and his fistula was constantly getting infected. After so many years of just being a living corpse, he gave up and decided that he wanted to die and refused his dialysis treatment and died within a week. As much a I grieved for his loss, at the same time I was relieved that his was no longer suffering. To me, the whole process was just evil. The torture was unspeakable.
So sorry to hear this. It's a terrible story I've heard all too often
It's hard to watch a loved one die, but it was not the fault of the caregivers at the clinic that your father developed ESRD. They were only trying to help.
I worked at a Dialysis clinic out of high school. It was so heart wrenching to watch the patients suffer through it.
I’m so sorry y’all had to go thru that and for your loss!
I feel your pain, my husband was told everyday that he was in danger of dying, but was constantly getting loaded with fluid drugs from IV drips. No regard for kidney fluid overload.
I am a dialysis nurse. The government are requiring that 25% of the patient to do treatment at home. Most patients refuses cause it's a lot a work for them and a lot of doesn't feel like doing it. We are trying to get to do home dialysis. I push meat as best as I can but doctor's encourage vegetables and carbs
Yep, my hospital wanted to start a PD program and I was like: "peace out!" Knowing it's all done just for profit and not for the patients' benefit. Going back to med-surg now, because HD sucks!
Have your patients try the Tablo machine by outset Medical. MUCH easier for patients to learn and use at home.
So true….my husband refused to do it at home.
It’s because it is scary- people have been trained to only listen to the Dr. and go for help. I think publishing information, getting it on commercials and radio people will be more accepting.
We were never given that choice for my mother. 3 hours a day, three times a week. She didn’t drive so it would have been so much easier to do at home.
Thanks for trying to help patients!
@Lindableching the problem specifically is with cannulating at home, and being able to troubleshoot the machine. An AV fistula is the gold standard for HD treatment, but using a 15 gauge needle is scary for a lot of people. You can also do more harm than good pretty easily in HD if you're not paying attention. Not knowing what an alarm means or not physically keeping eyes on your patient and their access, it can be fatal
It would be VERY VERY interesting to know How many politicians have their hands in this dialysis industry 😮🤔 who are the owners and silent partners in this gold mine
Thanks doc. for sharing this vital information with us 👍
This is cattle call medicine. From VA x xes given at the parking lot at a shopping mall to dialysis centers. Dr.Shiva Ayadurai is the only Presidential hopeful advocating personalized medicine. Why not anyone else???
That’s a good question!
It's FAR more involved than that... add 'or influenced by others to support the industry in exchange for recirocal self enriching agendas."
Oh no😮 I was already raging about the abuse diabetics were facing. Finding out dialisis patients are being abused like this brings me to tears. My prayers go out to you guys for exposing this terrible abuse for profit scheme!
Agree! This needs exposed ! Thank you good doctors The medical community is corrupt as hell!
Bro, diabetic patients are just future dialysis patients. Go enough years ignoring your high blood sugar, then SURPRISE! you've got end-stage renal failure
I should have written a book on what I experienced as an RN. Inpatient hospice OMG!
It makes me absolutely sick to the core of my being that I am part of this exact business. I am a patient transporter and before this I was in the medical field for 2+ decades. I've been a follower of Dr Berry for years now (And he and Nurse Neisha are absolute ROCKSTARS fighting this good fight through diet. The list I have of the terrible things I see 6 days a week don't even have words to describe the way the these places are run. The dieticians at each one of these clinics still ha e patients consuming carbs and sugar sugar sugar!!! God Bless Dr Berry and his family. I'll be right here fighting the good fight and giving patients a glimpse into a proper human diet in hopes and prayers that it helps
75 % of the drugs we take for other medical problems cause one to wind up on dialysis , because of the side effects .
Exactly. I noticed my BP meds lisinophril & amlodipine kept me going to the restroom. I learned that long term use will land you in the dialysis.
A good friend of mine's treatment for high blood pressure led him to 2 week hospital stay for kidney ailment
My mom died 30 years ago after being on dialysis for 5 years. I wish we had known of the PHD diet at that time. Thank you for this informative interview.
What is the PHD diet and where can I find more information on it?
@@Jennipher82882 - PHD acronym for "Proper Human Diet".
I.E. Carnivore diet. Basic fast and simple. ;-)
Meat, butter, bacon and eggs. Will put you back on track.
edit: Worth mention leave all veggies, cereals, fruits, seed/veggie oils, nuts, grains, sodas, margarine... Or in short all processed "crap" on the supermarket! This part is non negotiable! LOL 🙂
fat/protein ration = 80/20 is close enough. Lots of fat and some protein.
Ideal fats butter, lard, tallow. Simple. For what it's worth I call it a "MIRACLE". Yes, with capital letter.
All the best. Cheers
So sorry to hear this, Mary Anne.
@@Jennipher82882proper human diet; means keto to carnivore diet
biofilm-> Kidney failure, why aren't u people reading?
I am so glad I don't live in the states. What a horrible, corrupt place.
Any chance you’d adopt a 60 yr old girl who desperately wants out of the USA?! 😅
I. Am German and I love it here
Tú es canadienne
With the current rates of obesity and diabetes I see a huge growth curve for the dialysis industry due to kidney failure.
You left out high blood pressure!
It has,to do to all medication use.
duhhhhh, they planned it
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@@lauraknight8839ehhhh 3 reason 1 infections 2 chemicals 3 possibly radiation (possibly least likely)
Retired nurse here. I took care of a lot of dialysis patients in the hospital (the dialysis unit was on my floor) Remember only one patient who normally did his own hemodialysis at home (did his own cannulations while in the hospital). Would love to see a successful artificial kidney soon. Here in California a couple of propositions on the ballot designed to improve safety in the dialysis clinics failed due to DaVita pouring $$M into their defeat. They would trot out their own patients to tell voters to vote "NO" (not like the patients had much choice but to say what DaVita wanted them to say). What really gets me is that DaVita is on the stock exchange! .
gross
So true -- and yes, Fresenius and DaVita (both publicly-traded, and preachers of "shareholder value") spent about $300 million to ensure that 3 California ballot initiatives were voted down. THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. How much good could that money have done for patients and workers in California?
lol, says it all!
how about ur state TREAT BIOFILM CAUSING KIDNEY FAILURE!!!!
My husband's kidney function tanks every time he gets those contrast dye tests for his heart, but the heart doctors keep insisting he needs them.
Last time his kidney function was not doing well and they were very insistent on giving him the test
We refused because it was clear to us that it would probably put him on dialysis.
They have been ignoring us for the past year.
It is criminal what they are doing.
How infuriating and terrifying. Definitely criminal.
I am so sorry.
I just had the dye twice, now my kidneys are damaged. They say coincidence. 😕
@@madjack8893 no a coincidence, malice
He got the dye 3 times. The 3rd time we pushed for a less toxic dye which they agreed to but on the day of he still got the same old dye. Never again.
Same experience with my Dad
They did this to my mother and sure enough she had to live the rest of her life on dialysis.
I worked in acute dialysis in hospitals back in the early 80’s as a nurse, but I worked for the company of the outpatient clinic because there weren’t any dialysis units in the hospitals in my town at that time. I quit after a patient told me she didn’t want to be put on and I reported this to the office and was told to just do it. I said the patient refused. They said she too confused to make a decision, but she logically explained why she was done with the treatment. So I refused and they sent someone else to put her on. I left the field at that time and quit working as a nurse for a few years.
When my mother shows signs of renal failure with some output but her cleansing by the kidneys was decreasing slowly, I went with her to the nephrologist she refused dialysis treatment they told her she had at most six months. She lived without treatment for 41/2 years. But without fail she was asked if she wanted to do dialysis each Dr. visit. She always refused. But she lived those years happy and enter hospice and died after six months.
Sadly, far too many patients are put on dialysis by default -- at eGFR levels higher than in other countries -- because of perverse financial incentives, plain and simple
Dad died of cardiovascular and kidney failure. Refuse dialysis. Peacefully died.
Same for my dad. He was 94. Dying of renal failure is a very calm passing, BUT only if the nausea from built up toxins is kept under control. You just get really really sleepy until you quit being.
I'm stage 5. I ve chosen not to do dialysis. I was diagnosed in December 2023. I do not have diabetes. Lupus nephritis.
I worked myself ragged trying to provide good care for my dialysis patients for the two big companies. There was never enough time or resources. Finally, after being required to work extra while ill 17 hours short staffed, I had a stroke. Now unable to work. We need to do more in prevention and keep people healthy, both patients and health care workers.
Yeah, but try telling that to some people with HTN and/or diabetes. Those are your future dialysis patients
My brother decided at age 59 to just stop dyalicis and just die! He said it hurt so bad,that he couldn't love like this! I wish he had known about the PHD ,as maybe it would have saved his life!💓Thanks for this!
So sad. So sorry for your loss.
Heartbreaking story. If you know other dialysis patients, maybe pass the word with your brother in mind...
I met a woman who worked for BCBS who had just come back from a conference in Spain where they have closed many dialysis clinics, because they have developed an artificial kidney, because the Spanish people care more about quality of life than quantity of life, so are not willing to sit for hours in a dialysis clinic. I have tried to find more information about this, but feel like it is being suppressed in the US. In socialized medicine a bionic kidney is cheaper than dialysis, but they have a fixed pot for health care, so need to figure out ways to take care of people for less $$
My wife has been on dialysis for close to 6 years now. She is a Fresenius patient also.
Thank you Dr. Berry for making this video and thank you Dr. Mueller for the work that you have done to help bring these issue to light.
Thank you for sharing this. Of course, every clinic is different, and maybe your wife's is excellent. But one should not assume this is so. Very best to you and your wife!
This is more than factual information. I have been a dialysis technician for 23 years. I would have loved to be apart of the research for this book. Hemo-Dialysis causes brain damage over time. I have worked with managers that have absolutely NO compassion in these meat factories. 😢
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Hearing about this today that this can be prevented is completely sickening to me.
My father died on dialysis treatment.
I wish I would have known about this years ago
So sorry to hear this.
Wow don’t I know. Gotta be “ compliant “ a sub nurse filling in for my RN at a DaVita facility told me to shut up and sit down , when I went into full respiratory failure sitting on the chair w an hour left. She thought I was having a panic attack. I pointed to the hospital , I had flash pulmonary edema , where in half a second my lungs were full of fluid and it was squeezing my heart ….she called me names , a lady told me to sit down and relax. I don’t know where the air came from I told her to shut the f…. up and went out …..I spent a week in a heart hospital because they had my dry weight wrong 50 lbs off. They weren’t pulling fluid. I almost died Because they didn’t listen to my dry weight. I had been an acute fail. Do nobody saw me before fluid on me. This treatment was done. No more abuse from even a substitute. She knew never to touch or speak to me , yet they kept her away from the clinic. The techs were wonderful. They saved me. Even praying for me , it is a cattle call. But they were good and good to me. This woman was an exception. But I did home dialysis and never went back DaVita is a rip off and my nephrologist went with me , he had a Fresenius built and is a fabulous nephrologist , I’m now transplanted 10 years. DaVita charged my insurance 80,000 a month. But my insurance paid 8 000. Bcbs At the end of my heart stay , they had pulled 11 lbs off of my chest. In 3 hours. I was trim when I went back after a week. God was with me the entire time and getting a perfect match kidney from a 25 year old living donor. I’m blessed but I was educated on dialysis 5 months was all I could take !!!!!!! Pd is by far the best type. No blood or needles ❤😊
Thanks for all the other people that are enduring this. I’m here because of the people that cared ……that substitute nurse would of let me die
"Pd is by far the best type."
What is Pd, please?
@@kestrelle5345 peritoneal dialysis...the fluid is filtrated through the abdominal cavity. You can Google it for more details.
@@kestrelle5345 Peritoneal Dialysis. A cath. Preferably a Bath Cath is inserted in your peritoneal area and a tube runs under the skin coming out the chest …it’s easier and pd is less infections no blood or needles , abd easy on your entire system. You hook up at night and sleep while on it. It uses sugar type water and the peritoneal wall I think , to filter the toxins out. Delivery of sugar water bags monthly. They take up room But not what would be enough to stop me from using it. I also ended up saying no to a fistula before starting PD I got my transplant and have virgin arms.
Peritoneal dialysis. A kind of dialysis and very interesting.
Lawyers should be suing the food in
dustry not dumping this mess on tax payers.
"Judgement Proof Plantiff' - Too much $, corruption, lobyists, etc. Nobody is dumb enough to try! It's like being dumb enough to run for President as a conservative. The machine wins every time!
This. This is the very reason for my channel. Watching my dad die to complications of type 1 diabetes , ultimately, renal failure. Watching what he went through. Then I was diagnosed as a type 2 in Aug. of 2022. A1C of 12.6 dropped to 4.9 in 3 months. People need to know about the proper human diet. Save their kidneys, save their life.
How did you do it? Provide the details so that others can benefit. Share the pertinent details if you will. Many are in need of guidance through over-comers. Thank You.
Australian Diabetes have finally acknowledged that low carb is the best way to combat diabetes why is it so hard for the USA?
Money
1 Timothy 6:10 for the love of money is the root of all evil.....
I figure that Da Vita shares are dominantly owned by Pilgrims Society members (The World Money POWER!!)
No need for antisemitism here
@@damonmelendez856 your mind has been poisoned! Ye Must be Born Again
@@cliffordparksjr.3308 indeed. John 8:44. I stand with Christ, and against his persecutors
@damonmelendez856 then what was that political stupid remark against a scriptural quotation, which describes the heart of men.
I have had three poodles…all died from kidney disease…vet recommended Hill dog food…too high of grains/ carbs… my dogs needed more protein and fats…technically I ended my darlings lives average 5 years sooner due to grains…
Pet food companies should be jailed! They know what they’re doing - poisoning our furry babies!
It's crap dog food and every vet I know have it in their lobby and I assume they get kickbacks for it. That crap is full of corn and grains like you say. I feed my dog mostly raw meat (beef, turkey, rabbit, duck with no veg, fruits, grains). The problem is she's in such good health and has so much energy she wakes me up before dawn with a toy in her mouth either wanting me to play or runs zoomies around the living room.🤣
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Yes, the veterinary services are corrupt too. Sad so sad. Keto and carnivore help pets too. All corn and wheat (which includes white flour) are heavily sprayed with glyphosate in the US
Yes my dog has been in kidney failure stage 1 due to vetprofen on a raw meat diet she’s doing great - in 2 yrs it’s not progressed screw hills and their “science” diet
Wow! I am an RN who was not aware of this information. Thank you for your work Dr. Mueller! Thank you Dr. Berry for letting us know about it!
What's gone on over the last 4 years
I have lost all trust for the medical professionals
Decades!!
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Yes you are probably right
But because of the last 4 years
I see things very clearly now
Me too , I stay as far away as I can only doing my annual preventative appts, it’s sad when you get anxiety to go get care , it’s disheartening
Thank you Dr.Berry and Dr.Tom Mueller for sharing this with us.
I still believe the problem or part of the problem is people believe wholeheartedly in the systems we live in. They don't or won't believe they're being lied to or deceived. Its beyond their understanding, even though they know that its a business in business for money. Things seem to be changing for the better though, with doctors and medical persons speaking up. Thank you Dr Berry ❤
I bought this book today compelled by this interview. The book is well-written and well-researched. It has a good index and extensive notation. I am stage 4 kidney disease. This book changed my life. I read it in five hours. 200 pages. Doctor Berry, thank you for bringing this book to our attention and Mr. Mueller, you're a gifted and courageous writer.
There are those days when I regret no longer being able to practice in my professions as a BsN and MD. Today is not one of those days😢Good information Ken and Tom! Middle Tennessee Rita ❤
Thanks Rita!! The medical profession needs you! (Do you miss it?)
I’ve been on dialysis for 23 years. I do home daily dialysis (hemo) since 2008. My cause was lupus and chemotherapy for that. Kidney fail within a week of chemo. Years ago I went to the clinic 3 Xs a week. It was horrible. My advice if you must do dialysis daily home dialysis is the best option. You are your own nurse.
It's my understanding that PD is for 10 hours a day, every day, is that true?
You can get more infections at home rather than in the hospital. Is that true?
As a nurse, I can tell you that you can get more infections in the hospital. You are safer at home doing just normal soap and water cleaning. Yes PD is usually done overnight for 8-12 hours so the person can be more mobile during the day.
PD length is individualized to each patient. So the MD will suggest 10hours, however, if the patient is not tolerating it or comes home late and gets connected to their machine late, they may only do 8 hours cuz they have plans in the morning. Then depending on how they are feeling, more short of breath or more edema, the next session they may choose to set it 11 hours to make up for the time lost and the excess salt consumed that day. Once the patient is comfortable with the process, they learn to adjust it.
Have you ever tried PD dialysis? I can't do hemo at this time . I have neuropathy In hands. But I could do PD. But it is slow and long but is it still as efficient than Hemo?
This whole system sounds like what the American Diabetes Association has been doing to Type 2 diabetics for decades. If you want to die a long slow terrible death, follow their food pyramid. My brother followed the ADA for 20 years before he starting taking his own health in his hands and by using an extreme low carb diet, he completely reversed his T2 diabetes. But, not before it destroyed his kidneys. Now, he has to go through what you describe here with CKD and dialysis. Moral of the story: Do your own research and listen to professionals like Dr Berry and Dr Fung, among others.
I don't know about the Am Diabetes Assoc, but I do know that the vast majority of dialysis associations and patient "advocacies" are actually funded by Big Dialysis and consistently communicate Big Dialysis messages
Corporate medicine kills! These organizations wouldn’t exist if they cured people. They stay in business and collect big salaries by keeping clients sick!
You are absolutely correct
Corporations should not run these things- No Corp. behind med care like this
Agree. Ultimately, we need a not-for-profit national healthcare system -- just like every other developed nation on earth. American exceptionalism is a great way to sucker Americans into settling for second-best
My husband is with Fresenius and is stuck with them due to no alternative. We tried PD but it did not work as well and don't get me started with their nutritionists. And seeing what they charge the VA for his treatment is mind blowing!! I found carnivore/keto to help him, it helped me but he is too stubborn to fully jump on board yet. Waiting for a kidney for over 5 years
What is PD?
Peritoneal dialysis
@@lemonbess6303thank you
❤ please try very hard to convince your husband to start carnivor, eggs, bacon, water, good salt, Celtics salt is perfect😊
Have you tried home hemodialysis?
I'm 68 and have donated plasma for some 15 years. No complications or complaints. The payment 2X week, about $450 per month, makes a huge difference.
I'm healthy, low carb paleo...💪🙏
My oldest son ended up on dialysis at DaVita for a time. He died in a hospital on March 12, 2024. He was 42. Tomorrow is my first Mother's Day without him....I am soooo sad.
He's always right beside you with hugs and kisses! You will see!😊
So sorry, that is a very young age. Much love to you!!
I pray that God will comfort you.
That's like taking an alcoholic into a bar and expecting him to not drink! I realized DaVita's recipes had issues years ago!
I am a Home-hemo RN. I train patients and their families to do dialysis in the home (HHD). I agree there are better ways, things need to change, and these companies are mostly out to make money on patients. But I also want to let you know that there are so very many patients out there that refuse to do home dialysis HHD or PD. They don't want to have to be responsible or to participate." It's just easier to come to the unit and it's less time for me" is what I'm told on a monthly basis from people and family members of those people who are fully capable of doing a home modality. It's frustrating, I know and have seen first hand how much better patients do at home for the reasons stated in this video. If you are a patient, have a family member, or care about someone on dialysis please let them know the facts. Thank you and God bless you all.
Totally agree, Leah, and as per a previous comment, it's a bit like patients who plead for shorter treatment times, even though shorter treatment times kill them faster. I think a lot of the refusal on the part of patients to do home dialysis stems from a dialysis system that is set up to make them passive recipient of care, rather than active participants in their own care. Thank you from the heart for doing what you do - - you are making so many lives so much better!
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Thank you Tom for educating people and bringing these important issues to light. I also agree with your response. It would be so great if kidney failure was caught much earlier and more people, including all medical persons, were educated.
Yes. In Germany the dialysis is slower and the patients live longer.
My father died of a heart attack at a regularly scheduled dialysis appointment in Nevada.
Very sorry for your father, Tori Lynn. Coronary arrest is a common "symptom" of high-speed, high UFR dialysis. Widely known, widely ignored.
I also made the decision with a friend of mine who also was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when we were 12 years old, that we would never agree to go on dialysis, because that is not a quality of life we want to live. My friend developed late stage kidney failure in her 40’s. Because of our stance on no dialysis, she was moved to the top of the transplant list. She did undergo a dual kidney/pancreas transplant. It was brutal but she was no longer diabetic & did not need dialysis. Unfortunately she only lived for 3 years after the transplant & passed from a heart attack at age 55.
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As a life long medic, I cannot tell you how many times we were called to local dialysis centers mostly for unresponsive turning into cardiac arrests. Gawd! I hated going to those places!!
That’s a very good point, I always see an ambulance outside the dialysis centers.
Smells like blood and bleach and acid and death smh
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The whole of our medical system is business, period. Your doctor is a businessman first and foremost. I use diet, herbs, fresh air, sunshine, and exercise. I do my own research and treat myself. 70 years old and managing my own heart failure that was brought on by a med I was on for years before I figured out the scam.
I was employed by Divita. You would not believe how quickly they certified me to give Dialysis. Fellow associates would wear my lab coat while carrying tubes full of blood unlabled and improperly bagged while tossing into the fridge. They would race out the back door to fast food restaurants without washing their hands and blood on their busy patterned scrubs which rarely were washed. I quit. They kept trying to get me to return which I refused unless they fired those who did not follow safety protocols. The best they would offer was opposing shifts. When I quit they had 1 (ONE) certified nurse per 26 patients who only sat at the front of the room and literally did nothing unless someone started bleeding out. They were planning on adding another 26 chairs without hiring more warm bodies.
My brother is in this dialysis situation. His son is a pharmacist, thinks he helping I guess! He is getting worse and worse, in hospital as I type this. Tried telling him about his diet years ago didn’t listen. I personally over came RA with changing diet because my docs were literally slowly killing me. You must take your health into your own hands!
Metformin should be taken off the market
Why?
WHY? I've been taking it for 2 years. Went from BMI of 30 to 21, lost 65# and now reduced my dose by 50%. Any rationale to support your random statement?
I would like to know why Metformin should be taken off the market
You're absolutely 💯 percent correct. It's sad that people are considering profit over lives.
I believe metformin is less dangerous than the GLP1 meds they are slinging around like watermelon at a Gallagher show. Obviously, lifestyle change is the appropriate therapy. However, my mother in law had severe weight and diabetes issues. She’s now 92 and has lost lots of fat. Metformin and cutting carbs did most of it. Her whole family are food addicts so she never committed to the lifestyle change. It has helped her but she suffers from the gut side effects that most get.
This gives profit a bad name. Not all profit is bad but this is a shame and a disgrace. The corruption and evil is breathtaking.
Totally agree, Tom: not all profit is bad, but when profit nudges aside patient care, we've got a problem
It sure is!
Thank you Dr Berry AND Dr Tom Mueller! Sharing WIDELY!
Ive been waiting for this! I shall be gifting Dr Muellers book, as I have all of Dr Berrys books and Neishas Keto Holiday cookbook. ( its so pretty, it still sits on my counter in my beautiful standing cookbook holder my husband made for me).
God bless and protect this community as we Warrior on 🙏
Thank you Kathy!! We really do need to fight back -- it's a David v Goliath situation, but let's not forget who won that one in the end!!
I just got out of the hospital and noticed so many violations why do doctors have so much Authority our chart notes are legal documents this is so flipping disturbing
I grew up with a cousin who was on dialysis in Germany in the early 80s. Very strict dietary rules and he was only alloed a cheat meal in the first hour of dialysis. Usually picked pasta and sometimes cake . My husband is on dialysis now.. the food list of what is recommended has my gall up . Sadly I can't convince him to listen to me so carbs are his friend. Funny enough while I was still his peritoneal helper I got to talk often to his nurse and we had the I talk and she gave me the look answers because she wasn't allowed to agree with me when I mentioned something that goes against protocoll...
I am an RN that worked in hemodialysis clinic for 15 years. I never saw a private insurance patient get preferential treatment.
Although the clinic's preference is to get more private insurance patients, they get the same treatment. As a nurse or a tech, you read the order then deliver it.
We do home hemo. I am my adult son’s caretaker. He was in a clinic but we went to home hemo to make it better for him. They really need to pay family members for doing this. It’s a full time job and very demanding. We are techs and sometimes MAs . I’ve done wound care most people would not attempt or believe.
Yes. and it's also not possible to find enough family members/friends able and willing to train to dialyze patients who'd prefer to be on home dialysis, unfortunately.
I'm a 2 x kidney transplant patient and I am so glad that I live in Australian as our health system is under Medicare, so dialysis for us is a free service and the care we get is remarkable, strict protocols/procedures.
This channel is only for Americans. 😂😂
Sorry the way your country
Embrassed covid shots
Leaves you with no credibility
My wife diwd 3 years ago frim kudbey disease. Sge died in a hospital. She was on dialysis fir 3 years.
Very sorry for your loss!..😢😢
So, sorry, Mike.
So very sorry.
So sorry, Mike...
I have a family member starting the whole process of dialysis. It's a nightmare and feels like a fast food process.
Try to get a second opinion from a nephrologist who has no financial conflict of interest. Cannot stress how important this is!
Maybe look for a holistic doctor? And keto or carnivore?
I haven't fully listened to this yet - it definitely brings up painful memories. My late husband had PKD, which is genetic. His first months on hemodialysis were awful - the leg cramps and sometimes even brain fog. But, he was determined and we were both trained on peritoneal dialysis. We had a few excellent years together while he was on PD and he was a strong advocate of patients taking charge of their healthcare. Unfortunately, other health issues piled on and he had to stop PD. His last year was spent doing hemo in-center and he hated it. All the infections finally caught up to him and he passed away a year and a half ago. He had just turned 53. I miss him.
So sorry, Meg. infections are another serious problem for dialysis patients that all too often are caused by caregivers in a hurry (or under-trained)
I'm so sorry for your loss.
I did next stage at home for my husband. I’m a nurse practitioner and the time it takes to set up, do the dialysis, and make the fluids used for the treatment is a full time job. I was working full time and after about three months I just couldn’t keep it up. The team did not tell me the truth
A few comments as a Davita RN for a few long months. Our smaller clinic was clean and generally staffed with people who cared about doing a good job. The only “Bullying “ I noticed was done by the opinionated liberal RN who was training me to take over. If the patients didn’t agree with her rhetoric, they were not on her good side. She also also heavily influenced the young uneducated tech that worked under her. I found the training program to be sadly lacking, as it was mostly self study, watching videos by myself in a room, or reading the notebook. The length of the dialysis sessions were determined by the nephrologist who sent them. But you are correct, the patients did not want to be there any longer than they had to be, and, several of them would often demand to be taken off early. The patients felt resentful and trapped, they had to be there and didn’t like it, so they could be a tough crowd sometimes. When I started, I thought I would be doing a lot of patient education, but since we were always rush, rush, rushed, we had very little time for that. I tried to stick that job out for a full year, but, when there was an opening at the hospital, I jumped ship and never looked back.
Fascinating (though sobering). Thanks for sharing this. Workers, like patients, are victims of this rush-rush-rush mentality
A couple years ago we had a Proposition on the ballot here in California that was OBVIOUSLY the dialysis industry trying to increase profits by not being required to have an MD on staff in facilities at all times. Of course I voted against that but the hundreds of thousands of dollars that the industry spent to lie voters into voting FOR the proposition worked. So it passed with about 53% of the vote, making the Dialysis Corps even richer and making dialysis patients even more at risk. "For Profit" and "Health Care" don't belong in the same sentence.
Worked in dialysis for 18 years. I would like to point out that those that want to do home dialysis should get more education and support from the start, in dr visits and hospitals before choosing home or clinic. I would gladly help families advocate for their needs.
Dr Berry! Please don’t underestimate the patient! These patients did not get to the dialysis chair because they followed the instructions of their Dr! The patients if dialysis are the ones that REFUSED TO do low carb, no grains, moderate protein. I have worked with amazing Drs that tried to get their patients to stay well and off dialysis to no avail because the patient wanted to do what they wanted to do. The compliance in the dialysis world is so low it breaks the spirit of the healthcare workers as they have to watch a slow suicide of those they care for. They show up to dialysis eating junk, won’t stay for their prescribed treatment, and a multitude of other outrageous compliance issues. There’s enough blame to go around at this table yet it’s the most important piece.
I agree with you. If people would change their diets many diseases could be avoided or reversed😢
OMG, now I know why my cousin chose death over continuing dialysis!! 😭
Thanks for this information!
Listening to the information that Dr. Mueller presented was like haveing him tell my sister's story. She had a very painful experience on dialysis and finialy refused to continue. She passed away 3 months later. I had always thought there had to have been a better way to manage the cramping and pain beside heavy pain killers. Thank you for this interview.
I am so sorry to hear this Laurie. Truly heartbreaking. I'm not a medical professional (though of course I've spoken with and read countless medical professionals), but I simply cannot understand how the most widely understood aspect of dialysis treatment, i.e., that long, gentle treatments at home our best, and the opposite kill and wound patients, can be so widely ignored. Actually, I can understand it: has to do with $$$. But I don't WANT to understand it.
@@tommueller8533 Thank you for your reply and for giving me the knowledge that I need so I can speak up if I am ever in the same situation. Thank you again.
My father has PKD, which no diet in the world can fix. At 80, he went on dialysis & is thriving at 88, so, not all bad.
New research published in Cell Reports Medicine from a recent clinical trial shows that adhering to a ketogenic diet can effectively control polycystic kidney disease (PKD).
Wonderful to hear. All clinics are different - some are great! - and each person tolerates dialysis differently. Sounds like your father is in a good place.
How do you know carnivore won't help. Your Dr tell you that?
Pkd is genetic. But the progression and be slowed down drastically on carnivore diet
@@marvinholland533 Not so. My father was raised vegan & the pkd stayed in remission until he was 79, which is a record. A lot of kidney issues are exacerbated by protein.