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Deal Near on Dialysis Care for Illegal Immigrants
Sep 1st 2010 – 9:59AM
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(Sept. 1) -- When Atlanta's public hospital closed its outpatient dialysis clinic last fall for financial reasons, some 60 poor patients, most of them illegal immigrants, were left in the lurch. Grady Memorial was hit with a lawsuit and agreed to continue providing care, but the contract for those treatments expired...
Background on dialysis
In medicine, dialysis (from Greek dialusis, meaning dissolution, dia, meaning through, and lysis, meaning loosening or splitting) is a process for removing waste and excess water from the blood, and is used primarily to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function in people with renal failure.
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