Our Fall Gathering of UW Nephrology WIN Women In Nephrology was a great success! It is wonderful to share knowledge and insights and feel energized from learning the perspectives of our amazing WIN group. Thank you to our organizers, Drs. Sarah Sanghavi and Laura Mayeda! UW Medicine

Celebrating the incredible four American Society of Nephrology award recipients from UW Nephrology Katherine Tuttle Beno Freedman Ann O'Hare Ian de Boer. So incredible proud year

Tom Kitwood: Treat others in a way you yourself would like to be treated.

Indeed.

Why we Revolt, Victor Montori. Industrial healthcare fails to notice patients.

(Ring a bell, #gadolinium sufferers?)

Ordinary Medicine, Sharon R. Kaufman.

Ann O'Hare

The dialysis team—Ann O'Hare

The patients may often be scared. Interactions are important.

Dialysis is often disruptive and traumatic for patients.

It is viewed as a lifeline in the face of ongoing [bona fide] existential threat.

Most have a limited community with other…

Upholding Personhood, Kitwood 1997—Ann O'Hare

Recognition

Respect

Trust

This work was informed by Martin Buber, Ich und Du (1923). There are I-it relationships, and I-thou. Daring to relate to another as thou, a journey into uncharted territory.

#Nephrology #MedTwitter

via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2023/10/12/opi…

Opinion: In the name of health care freedom, millions of veterans may lose theirs taskandpurpose.com/opinion/vetera…

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/09/30/us/…

“Science communication and outreach often prioritize simplifying scientific information for broader audiences. …presenting simplified information…could..lead to increased overconfidence gaps among those with some (albeit little) knowledge.”

phys.org/news/2023-09-k…

🙏 for successful f2f meeting of our CORC (COVID-19 Observational Research Collaboratory) at Ann Arbor.
🙏🙏 ⁦
Denise Hynes
Jack Iwashyna🫁⁩
⁦Amy Bohnert⁩
⁦Ann O'Hare⁩ ⁦Elizabeth Viglianti⁩
Ed Boyko
Matt Maciejewski
Kristina Bajema

research.va.gov/corc

I love this editorial in JAGS by Chris Frank titled 'Common sense cancer care for older adults' as the premise works not just for cancer but also with the newer Alzheimer's drugs including the concept of time toxicity. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

“Resuscitation requires all of the above, but it has somehow become easier to offer a false choice, a cruel choice, than to not offer CPR at all.” By Sunita_Puri in the The New Yorker
newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

Featuring UW PulmCritCareSleep Claire Creutzfeldt Shinetra Pryor UW Palliative Care Training Center UW Department of Medicine General Internal Medicine at UW Medicine Amy Trowbridge, MD UW Pediatrics Ruth Engelberg Bob Lee MD MS Whitney Kiker Crystal Brown Nauzley Abedini Jori Bogetz Ann L. Jennerich, MD MS ATSF Katy Fladeboe Ann O'Hare and many more

I have a secret for defeating imposter syndrome.

Do you want to know what it is?

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We wish our UW Nephrology #fellow graduates all the best as they begin the next chapter of their amazing careers!! What talent! Drs. Lauren Ring, Karen de Wolski, Neha Deval, Michelle Pengshung, and Eric Luitweiler #kidney #nephtwitter UW Medicine

What an amazing story.

“In Washington DC, at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

After…

Experiences of US Clinicians Contending With Health Care Resource Scarcity During the COVID-19 Pandemic, December 2020 to December 2021

w/ Drs Kate Butler Ann O'Hare & VA Puget Sound Kidney Research Institute UW Nephrology Seattle Children's
in JAMA Network Open

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37326986/

Excellent update by Dale Lupu on conservative management of kidney patients …

ajkd.org/article/S0272-…
AJKD

… with many resources from:
Kidney Supportive Care Research Group
Ann O'Hare
Coalition for Supportive Care of Kidney Patients

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… ASN Kidney360

RPA-Nephrology #RPAPAL23

Drs. Justin Bullock and Mohini Dasari MD gave a powerful talk today on their duoethnographic study of identity safety in fellowship training.

Grateful for their vulnerability and bravery ❤️