By
MikeH on
October 30, 2012
The topic for this month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) blog carnival is a great one! It prompts us to directly address our healthcare providers (HCP) and certified diabetes educators (CDEs), telling them what we’d like THEM to learn from the Diabetes Online Community.
That’s a very important question, as we’re constantly thinking about how much we want our docs and educators to actually listen to us patients individually, rather than treating us all like…
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By
MikeH on
October 4, 2012
One particular moment doesn’t stand out about the MedicineX conference at Stanford University this past week. Instead, it was all of the moments!
What I keep coming back to in my mind is the recurring theme of this event: that the voice of the patient is incredibly meaningful, and should be a part of the healthcare process, from beginning to end.
That, IMHO, is was what the three-day MedX conference was all about. A few…
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Nancy Finn’s motto is that “healthcare is not a spectator sport, it is a participatory sport.” In her book, e-Patients Live Longer, The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology, released late last year, she goes on to state:
“(Patients) should participate in decision making with their physicians, ask questions, and be willing to invest time and effort in understanding their conditions. Physicians, for their part, must be willing to share information, with their…
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By
WilD on
December 24, 2011
It’s a Holiday weekend, but the surviving-diabetes-train never stops. Our Ask D’Mine weekly advice column host Wil Dubois is workin’ overtime to answer your every query.
This week, he’s taking on online commenters who bite, and coffee drinks that hopefully don’t.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Chad from Illinois, type 1, writes: When I put up positive messages on some diabetic chat sites I’ve gotten replies to my posts stating that I…
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