Diabetes In Control. A free weekly diabetes newsletter for Medical Professionals. News and information for Medical Professionals.
In this issue:
Letter From the Editor
Those of us in the U.S. celebrated Thanksgiving this week. One of the things the DIC team has to be thankful for is our wonderful readers. We’re grateful for your loyal readership and especially for the great feedback and content, like our weekly Disasters Averted stories, you send us.
We recently asked you to submit your best advice on how to prevent insulin errors at home, at pharmacies, and in the hospital. We’re happy to announce the winner of our contest, Joyce Larson! You can read Joyce’s winning entry as well as some of the other great entries submitted by the DIC community here.
As the DIC team spends extra time with our family and friends this holiday week, we’ve put together a retrospective of one of our most popular features, the Test Your Knowledge questions. We have a new question for you and a roundup of the most popular questions of 2015 (plus a Thanksgiving-themed bonus question). See how many you remember!
Announcements:
Free CME Courses
Our web site CME resource is back online! Be sure to check out the new CME courses posted there. Courses are currently available on topics including: Advances in the Medical & Surgical Management of Obesity; Diabetic Retinopathy; Strategies to Improve Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes; and more!
dLifeTV.com: Sunday, November 29, 7PM ET
From dLife.com: “One amazing type 1 woman shares her journey around the globe to conquer television’s Amazing Race. Also, one man’s journey to better control with insulin, and Jim Turner asks what you hate about diabetes. Special Guests: Dr. Nat Strand.” Sundays live online at dLifeTV.com at 7 PM ET, 6 PM CT, and 4 PM PT. Keep up on the latest dLife news at dLifeTV.com.
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We can make a difference!
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Dave Joffe, Editor-in-chief
Diabetes In Control readers submitted their best advice on how to prevent insulin errors at home, at pharmacies, and in the hospital. We’re happy to present the winning entry, by Joyce Larson, as well as a selection of other excellent entries.
Test Your Knowledge
43-year old patient presents to your clinic for an appointment. She has mild hypertension, which is currently well controlled with a ß-blocker. She was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 6-years ago, and has been taking metformin and glipizide. She has noticed that her recent self-blood glucose monitoring numbers have been creeping up and with a most recent FPG of 160 mg/dl. At today’s visit, she has an A1C 8.0%. She tells you that until now her job has required she travel several times a month. This week she was promoted to a managerial position that does not require travel. Which of the following approaches would be the best for her?
These were the Test Your Knowledge questions that generated the most interest for Diabetes In Control readers in 2015. See how many you remember! [QTL-Question id=29] [QTL-Question id=30] [QTL-Question id=31] [QTL-Question id=32] [QTL-Question id=33]
Just for fun, here’s a bonus question to Test Your Knowledge of Thanksgiving: according to food historians, the meal at the first Thanksgiving in 1621 would have been very different from what most U.S. celebrants eat today. In fact, only one of these modern Thanksgiving staples might actually have been on the table back then. Which one is it?
Quote of the Week!
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
…William James
Diabetes in Control gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the following pharmacy doctoral candidates in the preparation of this week’s newsletter:
Jaydeep Patel, USF College of Pharmacy
Shawn Vahabzadeh, USF College of Pharmacy
Your Friends in Diabetes Care
Steve and Dave
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