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Entries by Elissa Stein from 02/2011

A Different Kind of Giving

| Posted 02.03.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Living Organ Donation, Kidney Transplant, Giving, Family Living Donation, Organ Donation, Living Donation, Family, Healthy Living News

I've always known, on some level, that should my brother need a kidney, one of mine is his. He's always been adamant that he'd never ask, but dialysis, which started last summer, has been disastrous.

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The Kidney and Goliath

| Posted 02.28.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: Kidney Donations, Health Insurance Companies, Surgery, Health Insurance Reform, Health Care, Huffington Post News

There's something wrong with a system in which corporations makes health decisions for people based on numbers, contracts or fees. Where patients are voiceless in their treatment.

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