![]() ![]() Like our Facebook page for more conversation and news coverage from Oakland and beyond. ![]() Once she got into the field, Grubbs said she was disturbed by the aggressive use of dialysis and the racial disparities in who gets transplants. She decided to become a nephrologist, a kidney doctor. Grubbs was was a primary care physician before she met Phillips, and she had never seen what people living with kidney disease went through on a daily basis. Now she has published a memoir, “Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor’s Search for the Perfect Match,” that tells the story of how a young doctor’s love for her partner led her to make a life-saving gift to him and fueled her passion to educate people about kidney disease. “People are generally amazed that I gave him one of my kidneys after nine months of dating, but we had both been around the block a couple of times and knew what we were looking for and what we definitely didn’t want in a relationship,” said Grubbs. ![]() It’s been 12 years, and Grubbs, 47, an associate professor of medicine at UC San Francisco, and Phillips, 44, who runs a Sacramento nonprofit, are still going strong. Phillips had a successful transplant in April 2005, and the couple got married four months later. So, after just nine months of dating, Grubbs gave him one of hers. Her new boyfriend, Robert Phillips, had end-stage kidney disease and had been going through debilitating dialysis treatments for five years, waiting for a kidney transplant. But a major obstacle stood in the way of the couple’s future. OAKLAND - After one short, bad marriage, Dr. ![]()
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