Editor’s Note: Emotional Barriers to Weight Loss and Mrs. KB

This week’s Case Study deals with the misconceptions that we often make about how people listen to what we are saying and how we think we told them something that we really didn’t. This is especially true when we are trying to get them to break habits or do things differently. Interestingly enough, this case is a perfect example of the kind of behavior that patients exhibit when we try to get them to lose weight and why reading One Reason Patients Don’t Follow Doctors’ Orders: The Emotional Barriers to Weight Loss may help us understand our patients better.

0.3, 0.5, 1, 5 — what are these numbers and why do we need to be worried about them? Check out this week’s Disaster Averted to learn how these numbers can really mess up your pump patient.

Our Homerun Slides from Dr. Aaron Vinik discuss testing methods and the relative effects of medications for treating neuropathy.