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For the last 15 years, Oscar Romero Alba has faced issues with his kidneys. For the past four years, that's meant dialysis.
Hispanic Americans"take longer to be placed on the waiting list," said Dr. Sixto Giusti, a kidney nephrologist at UCHealth."Until recently, once on the waiting list, they take even longer to get transplanted. They don't feel like they're going to be taken care of properly. They feel that they're going to be taken advantage of. And culturally, it's a big taboo to ask somebody for help, to ask somebody for a kidney.
In Oscar's case, the team did something else,"I thought I was going to have to do dialysis for life, because there was no way to pay for insurance."
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