We all need a little perspective sometimes.
Mine came on the heels of a week of diabetes conference activity and advocacy talk, and it was a reality check that slapped me upside the head while screaming at me about how much bigger the world is than diabetes.
One phone call was enough to remind me that, in the grand scheme, diabetes isn’t that big of a deal. Really. There are a whole lot of worse…
Earlier today, we told you about how diabetes education is changing and those in the field are starting to listen more to the voice of the patient and encourage us to write our own stories.
At the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) conference, we sat down and chatted with Janis Roszler, a CDE and family therapist in Miami. She discussed patient empowerment and how educators can do a better job of helping us manage…
Hey, diabetes educators: It’s not about you; it’s about us people with diabetes.
At the annual meeting for the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), I sat in on several sessions focused on teaching CDEs how to be better educators. While it was reassuring to note that the trainers are starting to grasp that they need to talk less and listen more, it also reinforced my perception that the vast majority of diabetes educators really…
In the second in our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest that were announced in June, we’re chatting with a Philadelphia woman who wants to see more integration and feedback factored into diabetes software. Jana Beck is currently finishing a Ph.D. in linguistics and certainly knows her stuff on the patient side, as she was diagnosed almost a decade ago. That came across in her winning video for the challenge.…
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We recently took a look at some not-so-kosher ways to get your hands on cheap test strips. Today, we’re looking at how you can get the most mileage out of a limited number of these costly strips.
One if by land… and two if by… oh crap. There’s only one lantern! How on earth will Paul Revere get the memo if the British come by sea? It might be funny if people’s lives weren’t…