Not a week goes by where I don’t get calls from patients, friends and colleagues about how to deal with Health Insurance companies and Medicare about some aspect of their diabetes care. I have decided, in an effort to reach many more people to share the advice here that I …

Each person responds differently when given the news that they have diabetes. You now have a person who has been told they have a chronic disease that they will have to manage and live with for the rest of their lives. They may have had a family member who had …

This morning I was sitting on the back of my boat watching the sunrise and thinking how very fortunate I am, and how much I have to be grateful for this Thanksgiving morning, when it occurred to me how many others did not feel quite so good today. For people …

The other day I met a man in a Nursing Home in New York. He is a department head in the facility and my class there has nothing to do with diabetes. We were just talking about the course I would be teaching and he asked me about my background …

As the end of the year approached each Network News Channel conducted their own review of 2001. Many started with the confusion of the election but all of them spent a great deal of time of the changes in our country since the attack of September 11th. I just heard …

Earlier this month I was a guest speaker at a sales training meeting for a major diabetes supplies distribution company. This is a really nice company with a national sales force and people who really care about people with diabetes. I have been impressed with their concerns about how to …

I would like to tell you a story about two women whom I shall call Tara and Sara. I met them recently in Florida and they are originally from New York, just as I am. They are very interesting, bright articulate women and represent two of the types of people …