[1] Grubbs joined the Alameda County Medical Center for her internal medicine residency.

[2] She is a Harold Amos Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Medical Faculty fellow.

[3][4] She studied the dietary supplements of Americans that are potentially harmful in chronic kidney disease.

She studied the outcomes of in-hospital palliative care consultations of patients with renal disease.

[11][12][13] The book describes how Grubbs met her husband, Robert Phillips, who had end-stage kidney disease.