Not long ago, I attended the American Diabetes Association’s Diabetes Expo here in New York City. Personally, I didn’t expect to get much out of the event because I knew that the Diabetes Expo (and ADA as a whole) is skewed toward the predominant type 2 diabetes population. But still, I wanted to bring along a friend who’s been struggling with her diabetes, and I wanted to say hello to a few other friends who…
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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,…
Earlier this week, Novo Nordisk released results of a sweeping new survey about how patients — both type 1 and type 2 — struggle with insulin therapy, and what doctors accredit that to.
Entitled the Global Attitudes of Patients and Physicians in Insulin Therapy (GAPPTM), the survey was conducted among almost 3,000 physicians and patients in eight countries “with the objective to learn what they perceive to be the biggest functional and emotional unfulfilled needs…
In the years since my diagnosis, I’ve often wondered why I needed a primary care physician. Since my health is all about controlling blood sugars and staving off D-complications these days, I literally have only seen our family doctor two or three times in the past six years. And then recently, we got a letter informing us that’s she’s retiring… No big deal, right? Wrong!
A couple of things happened:
Coincidentally, right around the time…