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OK Brainiacs… Riddle Me This: Crowdsourcing Diabetes Management

 

Let me explain why the pattern above troubles me.  I have been having late afternoon lows off-and-on for months.  Normally I would think I need less insulin except for a few pertinent facts:

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I Can’t Find The Word For This Type Of ‘-ism’ Or ‘-ist’

And it’s not from a lack of trying, the word simply doesn’t exist. Maybe there’s been no need for it, a word to describe a concept that is imbedded in societies around the world. Maybe it simply hasn’t risen to the level where society will take notice. Except, I believe, it has.

Let’s look at [...]

Your Child is Going to Die and We Can’t Do Anything About It

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“Your child has Type 1 diabetes”

Those are six words that no parent wants to hear.  Those six words were a death sentence 90 years ago before the advent of insulin.

Today, most of the developed world has insulin to treat diabetes, but those six words are still a death sentence in most impoverished, undeveloped, and [...]

The Law of Unintended Consequences

As a firm believer in the Law of Unintended Consequences (LoUC), it immediately came to mind when I read a post by Dan Diamond over at the Health Care Blog, About Time? Smokers Face Tough New Rules Under Obamacare which details a little known provision of the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aka [...]

Morpheus Speaks

** Today, I am happy to introduce Dr. Ann Becker Shutte, better known as Morpheus.  Take it away, Ann!

Hi all–nice to virtually meet you. This is a first for me–sharing a guest post on a former client’s blog. However, as Scott discussed in his post about “Finding Morpheus,” the intersection of health care providers [...]