Vanessa Grubbs on Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Alex Smith and Eric Widera
June 9, 201730m 38s
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Show Notes
Today's GeriPal Podcast features Vanessa Grubbs, a nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF. Vanessa talks with us about her forthcoming book titled, "Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers," to be released June 13, but available for pre-order now. Dr. Grubbs' book tells the story of her journey from primary care to nephrology to palliative care, of falling in love with a man to donating a kidney to him to marriage, and of the journeys of the diverse, older, complex patients she's cared for with chronic kidney disease, who sometimes choose not to start dialysis.