Donor Disincentives, with Martha Gershun | EP 15
Send us Fan Mail In 2018 Martha donated a kidney to a woman she read about in the newspaper. She co-authored a book, Kidney to Share, published by Cornell University Press, about that experience and h...
5 Jan 202329min
A Double Donor’s Story of Loss and Redemption | EP 14
Send us Fan Mail According to United Network of Organ Sharing, only 133 living donors in the entire U.S. have donated both a kidney and a portion of their liver to two different recipients. A few yea...
7 Dec 202236min
Can I Drink After Donation? And Other Donor FAQs | EP 13
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 2 of Donor Diaries! To kick of season 2, we are going to jump into some basics about kidney donation- some helpful Q&A for anyone out there who may identify as donor...
2 Nov 202221min
Commit, Then Figure It Out | EP 12
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Donor Diaries’ Season 1 closer! In Season 1 of Donor Diaries, we covered a range of topics. We covered how to ask somebody for a kidney, the pains and history of dialysi...
4 Maj 202222min
“Anam Cara” The Soul Friends | EP 11
Send us Fan Mail Meet donor extraordinaire Jeramy Davies. He’s not only a bone marrow expert, but he is a two-time donor, having donated both bone marrow and a kidney to the same person. This in its...
6 Apr 202231min
The One Kidney Climb | EP 10
Send us Fan Mail Meet Bobby McLaughlin, Tracey Hulick, Steve Wilson and Patty Graham from the Kidney Donor Athletes (KDA) who are in Tanzania right now getting ready to climb Mt Kilimanjaro with 18 ot...
2 Mars 202231min
An Economists Perspective on the Value of a Kidney | EP 9
Send us Fan Mail It’s illegal to buy or sell a kidney in all countries, except Iran. But imagine if there was a waitlist of people waiting to donate a kidney, versus a waitlist of people waiting to r...
2 Feb 202230min
Insider’s Guide to Living Kidney Donation | EP 8
Send us Fan Mail A transplant isn’t an event that happens exclusively to the organ recipient. It also has a major impact on the family of a recipient or organ donor and often results in complex situa...
5 Jan 202228min
