Are Diabetes Complications Inevitable? Not necessarily...

This is a very personal post, reporting on my own recent reports on three aspects of my health: my eyes, my heart and my other affliction, l...

Do Doctors Matter?

I feel this is a very important point needing emphasis for the many type 2 diabetics I know participating in diabetes web forums, social med...

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...

Is Your Doctor Listening to You – Part 2

Part 2 of 2 Parts In this part I will cover a blog from Dr. Rob Lamberts. I have followed his blog regularly for several years and enjoy hi...

Is Your Doctor Listening to You – Part 1

Part 1 of 2 Parts How doctors blog does say a lot about them. Some are very caring and understanding, while others are brisk and matter-of-...

Doctors Can Help Reduce Medications

Reading news articles sometimes is very unnerving.  Not only was I offended by this one, I was irritated and not sure I wanted to blog abou...

Nurse Practitioner Groups Unite

Primary care physicians move over, the new American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) is now united (as of January 1, 2013) and look...

Are Doctors Lobbying Themselves Out into the Cold?

When I wrote this blog, I had suspicions that this was the case, but not enough information to include it then. And did it happen – three d...

What Patients Want From Their Clinicians...

I think a lot about patients' rights, and expectations; about what the most ideal  medical care should look like for a person with diabe...

Patients Trust Doctors but Consult the Internet

This is one study that does not reveal anything new to me. Members of our informal group have been talking about this for some time. We al...

Could Your Doctor Handle 24 Hours with Diabetes?

As diabetes advocates, we spend an awful lot of time writing about our challenges, our frustrations, and the misinformation that is so rampa...

A Diabetic Manifesto...

I love my Christmas tree... I light it. I enjoy it's silent cheer; it's proud glow. Perhaps, a memory of a 'perfect' childho...

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