CONTACT LISTS » MARK One of the goals of the exodus — is to take some significant percentage of patients along with the vampires leaving California. We do not need to bring all the patients (ten per vampire) but bringing two or three would be great. This is both to protect the patients from the hemodialysis reduction ramifications and to make it clear we are doing our best to avoid harm to others. If this ever hits the press, our counter might be "We are providing dialysis for free to thousands of patients, what are the clinics charging?" The problem is figuring out who to contact and how to contact them. The subset of patients we want to talk with are not on an email list we can buy from marketers. And I have no idea how to write the email to those people. In theory, the vampires could contact their own patients, but even if influence could help with that interaction, it would look very suspicious to have vampires contacting all their patients. Plus vampires are a pretty general cross-section of humanity, and many of them are actually pretty anti-social. Nothing about dialysis encourages social interaction, so a vampire has to personally drive this patient contact and have the personality or influence to succeed at that. We want this to be as simple and successful as possible. To lead to this success, I need a targeted contact list of patient and their non-dialysis addresses. Phones are unfortunately useless for most vampires, and patients are unlikely to have an easy way to video chat… some won't even have email addresses. So an old fashioned door-to-door salesman marketing list is the way to go. With the list being filtered by current dialysis patients, and possibly organized by income level. I hope Jo-Anne, my dialysis social worker, can help.
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