Hispanic Americans “take longer to be placed on the waiting list,” said Sixto Giusti, a kidney nephrologist at UCHealth [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine. “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.”