As if entering adulthood wasn’t tough enough, teens with diabetes face an extra challenge just about the time they’re graduating from high school and reaching adulthood: they’re forced to transition from close, intimate pediatric care settings to the hard, “get ‘em in, get ‘em out” world of adult healthcare, where so much depends on jobs, health insurance and self-motivation.
Historically pretty much ignored by the medical establishment, “emerging adults” with diabetes, ranging from 18 to…
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Attending the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions as patients certainly affords us a unique window into progress on diabetes tools and devices, clinical research, and cure research. But what about the health professionals for whom this conference was actually designed? Surely they have a different perspective on all the “breaking news.”
For some insight from an attending clinician and researcher, we turned one of our favorite diabetes experts, Dr. Richard Jackson, an endocrinologist at the…
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A patient’s relationship with their endocrinologist is… well, complicated. On one hand, endos spend years in school, learning all the intricate biomechanisms that make the body work, but on the other hand, they often sit behind a desk, doling out advice to patients who may have been living with a disease for longer than they’ve been familiar with it. Sometimes it can even feel like an endocrinologist is just reading out of a textbook.
Well,…
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AmyT on
March 22, 2012
It’s not often you get to meet someone who actually worked directly with Dr. Elliott Joslin, “the father of diabetes care,” back in the day. But lucky for us, fellow D-blogger and journalist Mike Hoskins lives in Indiana, very near the Eli Lilly HQ and a gentleman who’s made an incredible impact on treating diabetes over the past 74 years. Don’t miss his (somewhat lengthy) historical perspective today:
Special to the ‘Mine by Michael Hoskins
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