AADE Training: Why Patients Don’t Listen to Their Diabetes Educators
Ever wonder how diabetes educators are trained to deal with us patients? That’s the most intriguing thing for us about covering the American Association of Diabetes Educators annual conference. Out of 15,000 attendees, we could probably count the non-CDE attendees on one hand. Not many actual patients are in attendance, so these CDEs end up talking and learning about “us” in absentia.
One session title that particularly intrigued us was titled “Dealing with Patients Who…