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How does diabetes stand by you?
"How does diabetes stand by you?" I find metaphors useful in describing diabetes concepts and our approaches to self-care. One I often...
Who needs diabetes DOCTORS?
“Are Doctors Really Necessary in Diabetes Care?” There is a principle in the computing world called Moore’s Law. Simply stated, computing...
Bubbles and Shells
One of my roles as an endocrinologist and certified diabetes educator (CDE) is to educate and support my patients' diabetes care skills...
The DKA demon?
In 1975, a famous endocrinologist published a very elegant experiment. He recruited 7 healthy adults with long standing type 1 diabetes....
Mirror, mirror on the wall... who's the smartest of them all?
The key to managing diabetes is a willingness to frequently check blood sugar (including CGM), thinking about the situation (assuming you...
Do you want it done right, or do you want it done fast?
Air travel safety is a great American success story. This wonderful track record is driven not only by high tech avionics, but by a...
It's the little things...
It's the little things that can really foul us up in our day to day diabetes self-care. Case in point: simply cleaning hands before a BG...
