Is Diabetes Progressive?

When I started thinking about blog topics, I had a few ideas that I have blogged about that I wanted to include. As I searched for the diff...

Food Reward Friday

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Should Type 2's Not On Insulin Use Glucose Meters?

Experts versus those that live with diabetes, how I dislike saying this, but it is down to this and this is the shame. Our so-called “exper...

Elderly with Diabetes Discriminated Against

If you are in the elderly group like I am and over the age of 64, you are being discriminated against. Yes, and this is because of our age ...

Diabetes Type 2 Resources

As much as I rail against the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and their guidelines, it is still important to know what they are advocati...

Pilot Program on Food-Insulin Gap Helpful

This is great news and I hope hospitals are paying attention. Two articles on the same topic – here and here. Again communication is the k...

The Genetics of Obesity, Part I

Choosing the Right Parents: the Best Way to Stay Lean? In 1990, Dr. Claude Bouchard and colleagues published a simple but fascinating study ...

What You Need To Know After Diagnosis

I may be a bit touchy about this topic, but time after time people leave much out of the discussion for people newly diagnosed with type 2 d...

June Calendar of Monthly Events

I must apologize for the lateness of this post, this has been a busy month and a lot of new topics of interest that I pushed to get written ...

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More Criticism of the AACE Diabetes Algorithms

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists apparently likes to pick and chose its fights. They did not attack Anne L. Peters, MD...

Updated Hypoglycemia Classifications

That the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and The Endocrine Society would undertake this project says that hypoglycemia has been of great...

Doctors and Insulin Equals Fear

When it comes to insulin, is it really the patients that doctors are concerned about, or their lack of knowledge. Possibly, it could be tha...

Discussion on the AACE Algorithm Shortcomings

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) diabetes algorithm has been out about two months and in my meetings with differ...

More Activities of Our Diabetes Group

The last six months have been very active for our group. We have gained and lost members, resulting in now three diabetes support groups fo...

Food Reward Friday

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Are You Communicating with Your Doctor

Is Your Doctor Listening to You? Establishing a strong doctor-patient relationship often depends more on you, the patient. This is sometime...

Receiving Test Results Confusing for Patients

Do you know how you receive your lab test results? When I blogged about this last year, I received many emails saying that keeping lab test...

The Role of Remote Patient Monitoring

For those interested in the role of remote patient monitoring (RPM), David Lee Scher, MD is an interesting blogger to follow. He has extens...

Drugs Only Work If You Take Them

The title of this medical blog is one that I can only say “duh” to. Why the authors decide to insult their readers is another question. Th...

Being Asked to Speak to Another Group

The weekend after our meeting with the doctor, a group from another town about 20 miles distant, asked Tim and I to speak to them on insulin...

Did FDA Committee Make the Right Decision?

This will be hotly debated for the next several months. Many people are sure to be asking why now? What safeguards will be taken to preven...

Food Reward Friday

This week's "winner" will certainly be the most controversial yet... bacon!! Bacon is a fatty cut of pork (typically side or b...

Why Physicians Dislike Seeing Diabetes Patients

An article in Medscape caught my attention and to see two doctors (one an associate professor of medicine and the other an endocrinologist) ...

Update

I haven't been putting much effort into blogging these past few weeks.  Frankly, a little break has been nice while I take care of other...

Question – Is Avandia Safe?

This is an interesting conundrum for the FDA. Or at least it will be if they lift the restrictions on Avandia. Avandia is in the class of ...

Safe Use of Insulin Vials

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) changes their mind again and is now urging hospitals to return to insulin vials and syrin...

ADA Relies On Faulty Studies, Not Good Advice

I wish I could copy all of the reasoning in this one file, but that would make for a long file. Dr. William H. Polonsky and Dr. Lawrence Fi...

Personal Observations

The last few weeks were somewhat of a blur for me. I was still upset that I could have caused the group to fracture in different directions...

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