February may have been a short month, but that doesn’t mean the diabetes online community is short of amazing posts! Because the DOC is growing so quickly, we’ve taken to highlighting a few of our favorite “must-read” posts at the end of each month. For February 2011:
You may not know it, but this week is National Eating Disorders Week. And in light of that, Lee Ann shares her greatest achievement despite diabetes.
Caroline needs…
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From the “Advice Column” file today:
Sometimes finding a good endo can seem harder than finding your soul mate! Whether it’s disagreements over treatment or they seem to be stuck in the stone-age on A1c levels, it’s discouraging how difficult it is to find Dr. Right. We have all witnessed stories of people who have had to fight tooth and nail to get the right treatment or had to put up with a technophobic doctor. …
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I think I mentioned that I had an endo appointment earlier this month. I was excited to tout my latest A1c (5.9!) and show her my newest diabetes toy, the OmniPod’s new color PDM. As usual, I left work and the kids in a huge rush and drove to the clinic all concerned about keeping good time. So you can imagine how irritated I was when I realized at some point that I’d been sitting…
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By
AmyT on
December 15, 2008
All this talk about “Health 2.0” and the “power of the healthcare consumer” only makes sense if we patients really do have choices. And lots of us still feel that we don’t. We’re either stuck with whatever our insurance provider dictates, or we don’t have the time/money/resources to really drive our own medical treatment.
While the financial aspect remains a painful hurdle, there’s lots of help on the way with respect to getting patients the…
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