Scott Johnson is one of my favorite fellow diabetes bloggers. Always has been. This post will show you why.
A Guest Post by Scott K. Johnson, of Scott’s Diabetes Journal
Amy’s guest post from Dr. Anne Peters last Thursday on “How to be a Good Diabetes Patient” sure ruffled some feathers. I wanted to take a stab at the other side of the story: How to be a good endo, from a patient’s point…
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It’s been a good weekend so far. Sun. Friends. Time off from this box I sit in front of far too much. With that in mind, I wish you all:
Honestly, I can’t think of any group of people who need or deserve a day off more than us chronically ill types.
Speaking of working hard, this seemed like a good opportunity to give a little “linky love” to the good folks out…
Who recognizes the name Lyrehca from the blog Managing the Sweetness Within, chronicling one woman’s efforts to get and stay pregnant while dealing with her lifelong type 1 diabetes? Yes, you guessed it: Lyrehca is coming out of the closet as herself, Cheryl Alkon, now-author of the forthcoming book Balancing Pregnancy With Pre-Existing Diabetes: Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby. Today, Lyrehca (er, Cheryl) shares a brief version of her story, and some don’t-miss tips on diabetes…
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You knew it was coming, and now is the time, Folks: launch of the 2009 Summer Reading Guest Post Series here at the ‘Mine.
I’ll be traveling most of the next four weeks, first domestically, and then in Germany and Holland.
And what will be happening here at the blog? Even more informative fun than last year, I hope. I’ve been very fortunate to be able to invite some of the country’s premiere experts on…
As the Diabetes Social Media Summit hosted by Roche approaches, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about the question of Pharma engagement here. Is Social Media destined to be just another forum for them to push marketing mantras and build brands? Or can there really be valuable two-way interaction between the chronically drug-dependent (us PWDs, for example) and the industry that sells us our meds?
A whole lot of blogosphere debate is going on,…