March 9, 2013

Does Your Doctor Blame You?

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Does your doctor blame you for being overweight, not following his directions (nonadherance) for managing your diabetes, and for not tak...
March 8, 2013

Diabetes Care in the Hospital

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This section of “Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2013” is often ignored until hospitalization is necessary and often there is not t...
March 7, 2013

You Have Diabetes – What to Do. - Part 4

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Part 4 of 4 Parts The doctor handed A.J. some pamphlets on injecting and where to inject. Then he pulled out a syringe and demonstrat...
March 6, 2013

You Have Diabetes – What to Do - Part 3

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Part 3 of 4 Parts When we arrived, he started filling out paperwork and was called for the blood draw. Then he completed the papers a...
March 5, 2013

You Have Diabetes – What to Do. - Part 2

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Part 2 of 4 Parts At that point, I asked, “and you think I am blowing smoke about you having diabetes?” I did not stop there and a...
March 4, 2013

You Have Diabetes – What to Do. - Part 1

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Part 1 of 4 Parts Have you had a doctor say “watch what you eat, your blood sugar is a little high,” or something like this, “try to g...
March 2, 2013

Why Oral Medications First?

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It is seldom that I think that the people making comments are more knowledgeable than the author of the blog, but this blog site seems to...
March 1, 2013

Classification and Diagnosis of Diabetes

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It is interesting how the American Diabetes Association dodges the classifications for diabetes . So there is no doubt, I will quote wh...