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Carrie Arnold
Journalist
I am an independent public health reporter based in Virginia.
Articles
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Years of covering the dialysis industry taught me a lot. Aside from understanding more obscure Medicare laws than I ever imagined imaginable, I also knew what it was like to require dialysis.
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The lack of official, published data on the topic wasn’t just a barrier to my investigation — it was also part of the actual story.
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Thomas Alba attended his thrice-weekly dialysis sessions for more than a decade before receiving what physicians term an "involuntary discharge."