Letter From The Editor

Have you ever done a shared medical appointment (SMA) in your office? One of our local doctors tried it and learned how patients can be their own worst enemies. Read this week’s Disaster Averted to find out what happened. Our Clinical Text looks at fluid and carbohydrate intake for athletes …

Yesterday I was flipping through the channels and stopped at the Food Channel when I saw that Paula Deen was on. Most of us are aware of the media frenzy when she came out and admitted she had diabetes, and all the public snafu’s that followed. Just like most news …

When my interns come to my rotation they have to live like they have type 2 and type 1 diabetes and this includes injecting themselves with saline based on calculating their insulin dose. A couple of years ago I was discussing this with an endocrinologist friend and mentioned that sometimes …

It’s all about the pounds this week in the latest and best articles on the internet from our staff here at Diabetes in Control. The research is exploding in various ways to fight the diabetes, weight, and cholesterol triad. Exercise and physical activity play a big part in this as …

Pill holder causes diabetes … or so it seems. This week’s Disaster Averted comes from one of our advisory board members, Dr Raymond Raitz of Palmetto, Fl. Last week he shared an interesting story about how a patient using a large pill holder for her medicines had all the signs and …

We have all heard the phrase “Misery Loves Company,” and often times when someone is diagnosed with diabetes, their friends with diabetes bond with them so that they can both “suffer” from the disease. This week we have the results of a study from the University of Pennsylvania and published …

Have you ever had a patient who tells you that their readings are all under 150mg/dl but then their A1c is 9.5? Often we scratch our heads and wonder why these patients are less than honest about their readings. There could be another reason though, and this week our Clinical …

This week, our publisher, Steve Freed, wants to know if you are setting a good example for your patients by engaging in physical activity. A good reason to think about this is that we are seeing more and more information about the benefits of physical activity and why we need …

The amount of medical information concerning diabetes which we receive on a daily basis from a multitude of sources is enormous. A lot of this knowledge blitz is aimed at helping you help your patients but this has led to the near impossible task of discerning which of these pieces …

A lot of times we just read the first part of a sentence and then fill in the rest mentally without realizing that we may be missing something out of the ordinary. This week our Diabetes Disaster takes a look at what happens when an older patient reads a prescription …