Editor’s Note, DCMS #186

Most clinicians focus on fasting glucose levels to prevent the complications of diabetes. What if there was a generic diabetes medication available that would lower ppg and cardiovascular risk and had almost no chance of causing hypoglycemia? If you want to find out what that medication is then check out this week’s Homerun Slides from Dr. Stanley Schwartz.

Insulin accounts for over half of all medication errors and this week’s Disaster Averted looks at all the possible things that can and do go wrong, and how we are just as likely to be error prone as our patients. Our Clinical Text focuses on medications which can reduce insulin resistance, and our Mastery In Minutes video takes a peek at a couple of unusual ways we might be able to boost our patients’ metabolism in the future.