Vanessa Grubbs on Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers

Published: June 9, 2017, 9:30 p.m.

b'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.'