A View From The Chair: A Beginners Guide to Life on Dialysis (Volume 1)

An educational tool for new dialysis patients as written by an actual dialysis patient. How to live a happy and productive life with kidney failure. You can do it. This book is specifically written for new End Stage Renal Disease patients and their loved ones. Keep smiling!

Thomas V. Carr Dialysis Patient Extroardinarius Founder and President: -Patients4Patients.org. A 501c3 Federally Registered non-profit organization designed to help new patients adapt to life on dialysis. Author: -A VIEW FROM THE CHAIR, A Beginners Guide to Life on Dialysis -Numerous medical and professional journals including: Dialysis and Transplantation Nephrology News & Issues Renal Support Networks Kidney Times Renal Business Today At St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, California: -Chairman, Patient Family Advisory Council -Chairman, Renal Patient Advisory Council -Environmental Associated Infections Team Member -Representative of the "Patient Perspective" on many Rapid Improvement Events -Honorary Green Belt Recipient, Simpler Healthcare -Voting Member, Institutional Review Board -Full time in-center hemo-dialysis since February of 2000 Additional Accomplishments: -Active Ambassador for Donate Life California/One legacy -Patient Representative for the National Renal Administrator's Association "Day on the hill" to Congress in 2010 -PEPP Speaker and Volunteer for the Renal Support Network -Speaker, National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting April, 2011 -Speaker, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Nashville 2011 -Patient Advisor, Southern California Renal Disease Council, Network 18 -Subject of multiple Patient Lifestyle videos. Amgen, Genentech, St. Joseph Hospital -Member in good standing, E Clampus Vitus