KevinMD September 7, 2025
A few months ago, I met a woman who had stopped speaking at dialysis. She had grown quiet, worn thin by the rhythm of a system that seemed to talk around her but never truly to her. When she finally spoke to me, it was not about her labs or transplant status. It was a whisper — “Do you think I’ll make it in time?”
In that moment, she wasn’t asking for statistics. She was asking for presence. And that is what I gave her. Because as a Doctor of Health Sciences, my work is not limited to operations or policy critiques — it is grounded in the practice of listening, advocating, and showing up when the system feels too...







