BODY LANGUAGE: Recent Episodes
Christopher Springmann
Interviewer, storyteller, healthcare and medical podcaster/writer, crafting content that inspires consumer and professional engagement.
I’m Christopher Springmann and this is NephTalk, a podcast series created with Nephrologists in mind, from Satellite Healthcare, a not-for-profit dialysis provider and clinical researcher, with a special focus on home, as the industry's home dialysis leader.
Nieltje Gedney: And I would have chosen to die, except that I was taking care of my mother, and the second was the fact that the nephrologist in the hospital who saw me on an emergency basis told me about home dialysis. And in all the years that I had been struggling against CKD, kidney disease, no one ever mentioned that option. Those two things really saved my life.
That’s our guest Nieltje Gedney, a home hemodialysis patient and hero to many with kidney disease, as an outspoken officer of Home Dialyzors United, an advocacy group committed to promoting innovative, accessible and often individualized patient-centered dialysis treatments at home.
I’m Christopher Springmann and this is NephTalk, a podcast series created with nephrologists in mind, from Satellite Healthcare, a not-for-profit dialysis provider and clinical researcher, with a special focus on home, as the industry's home dialysis leader.
CS: You really enjoy this work, don’t you? Dr. Randy Chen, MD: I do.
CS: I can hear the passion in your voice.
RC: I hope that comes through. I mean, I can’t imagine anything else. And it’s just wonderful to be able to help your fellow man. And do it in a way in which you use knowledge, compassion, and just empathy for patients you are dealing with really, life-changing events and diseases. That’s Dr. Randy Chen, MD, a full-time private practice nephrologist, a medical advisor for Satellite Healthcare, and Medical Director for Satellite Healthcare’s Dialysis Center in Daly City, California.
NephTalk is a podcast series created with nephrologists in mind, from Satellite Healthcare, a not-for-profit dialysis provider and clinical researcher, with a special focus on home, as the industry's home dialysis leader. This episode features Dr. Tara Chang, MD, a nephrologist and a Satellite Healthcare research grant recipient who possesses three qualities I really admire: Curiosity, asking the big “why not?” questions; creativity, the kind you apply to problem solving; plus she’s known as a great collaborator and an inspiring partner.
Dr. Chang is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California.
Our guest, Dr. Richard L. Gibney, MD, has practiced nephrology for 40 years in Waco, Texas. Over a decade ago he implemented a unique approach to engaging patients personally in their own dialysis procedure instead of, as he says, just hunkering down in a chair. This is the story of Dr. Gibney’s journey to empowering patients through self-care dialysis in center, which he describes as a life-changing experience, for everyone involved.