A loyal reader emails me to say thanks for creating a site that’s “positive and a great experience for the diabetic.” And I say THANKS FOR NOTICING, ’cause that’s exactly why I started this blog: most every other resource I found was such a downer!
I also get a fair amount of emails from people calling for help. They’re usually either newly diagnosed and feeling totally under water, or struggling to help a loved one…
Why do they call us patients, anyway? I, for one, most certainly am not. Ask my partner. Ask my kids. Ask anyone who’s met me for more than 15 minutes. Not patient.
Case-in-point: my annual eye exam on Friday, which took about 1.5 hours — a full half-hour of which was spent trying to get me to keep still in the head-vice contraption long enough for that bright blue laser to get right in there…
Actually I’ve lost count, but 16 sounded good. Anyway, check out another new diabetes blog by a doctor at JJS Diabetes: Dr. John J. Schelmet from New Jersey has the unique idea of maintaining a blog for his practice. Patients can learn about diabetes stuff right there with information on the office staff and upcoming schedule changes. I wish my doctor were so proactive on the Net! Neat.
Then there’s Carl Wood out of the…
A must read — BusinessWeek on Drugs Get Smart:
“Doctors are calling it ‘the age of personalized medicine’ as they close in on genetic variations that hint at why one person responds to a drug and another doesn’t, why some people are prone to strokes or heart disease, why one person’s cancer is more aggressive than another’s.”
“The shift to drugs tailored to a specific genetic profile will bring massive changes to a pharmaceutical industry…
Oooh. I just found a very cool brand new article from Janis Roszler (RD, CDE, LD/N, etc., etc.) over at eDiets.com, of all places. First off, I just keep running into that woman’s name! Turns out she’s a diabetes author with her own “Dear Janis ” Web site and her own radio show, and she’s a prolific D-columnist. She even writes an “Expert Column” over at dLife. (Mine would be the “Un-Expert Column,” as in…
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