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  • Author James Michener, who was on dialysis for four or five years before he died at the age of ninety, wrote of the adjustments he had to make to conform to what he called the Dialysis Calendar: four-hour sessions occurring on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, which left him completely exhausted and unable to do life on those days.

    After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

  • Dialysis is available to people with plenty of money.

    Health care bill postponed 2009

  • Dialysis is the process of pumping a patient's blood through a filtering machine and returning it to the body.

    A Dialysis Treatment For The Busy Patient Melinda Beck 2010

  • Femoral vs Jugular Venous Catheterization for Short-term Dialysis Access

    JAMA current issue S. Balamuthusamy 2008

  • Dialysis, which is what I'm on, I go three days a week.

    CNN Transcript May 2, 2009 2009

  • Dialysis, which is what I'm on, I go three days a week.

    CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2009 2009

  • Dialysis, which is what I'm on -- I go three days a week.

    CNN Transcript May 20, 2009 2009

  • In such a situation, it is by the "Dialysis" that waste products and excess fluids are removed from the blood.

    Medindia Health News 2009

  • USA Today: Dialysis treatment in USA: High costs, high death rates

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 24, 2009 2009

  • Dialysis patients are prone to anemia, bloating and weight gain, low blood pressure, and infection from their catheters.

    ...With Functioning Kidneys for All 2009

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