Taming the Tiger

On Becoming a Diabetes Warrior

By AllisonN on September 19, 2011

Diabetes education + fun probably sounds like an oxymoron, right? Well, not if you’re Wil Dubois, DiabetesMine’s resident weekly Ask D’Mine columnist. As if the guy doesn’t have enough to do, what with working as the Diabetes Coordinator at the buzzing Pecos Valley Medical Center in New Mexico and a freelance writer for Diabetic Living, dLife and the ‘Mine, Wil has recently released his edu-fun-tastic fourth book, Diabetes Warriors: Be your own knight in shining…

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Free Help for the Newly Diagnosed!

By AmyT on December 10, 2010

Wil Dubois (aka Lee) is a fabulous resource. He’s a D-blogger, diabetes educator himself, and author of a bunch of very cool and down-to-earth informative books about living with diabetes. However, his experience with his publisher was the same as ours: Not enough marketing! Not enough help getting these useful books into patients’ hands! So Wil has decided to go rogue, by offering his Taming the Tiger book, a tiny pocket first-year survival guide for…

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Taming the Tiger: New Diabetes Survival Guide

By AmyT on July 20, 2009

Fellow diabetes blogger and advocate William “Lee” Dubois is at it again, creating another super-handy pocket guide for dealing with the Big D.  This one, which debuts tomorrow, is called “Taming the Tiger: Your First Year with Diabetes.”  And it rocks! Er, roars, if you will…
It’s a slim volume of just over 100 pages (less than 7,000 words) that aims to give newly diagnosed folks “the bare-bones information you need to get started” on…

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