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My D Team: Me, Myself and I
The other day somebody innocently tweeted that diabetes management was a team effort.That got me thinking and although it’s dangerous to push metaphors too far I don’t believe thinking of diabetes management in terms of a team is appropriate or helpful. The team analogy implies that everyone has a role to play at all times…
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A New Pump on the Aussie Block: Ypsomed!
A new pump is available in Australia, right now. The Ypsomed (pronounced ipsomed) has been TGA approved and will be reimbursed by your health fund and the consumables are on the NDSS. I was invited to attend a soft launch of the product and provided with a loan pump to ‘test-drive’. Ypsomed covered my travel…
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Should Clinicians Be Involved in Health Policy Decisions?
UK endocrinologist and all round good guy, Partha Kar has been musing about patient involvement in funding allocations on his blog. I can’t help but respond, as Partha notes in his blog, he is thinking aloud and so am I, also playing devil’s advocate. As a side note I have interacted with Dr Kar on…
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2017 The Diabetes Year That Was
There’s been WAY more good in my life, both diabetes and otherwise than bad or ugly this year. A fact for which I’m grateful but as the year lurches towards its conclusion I’ll add to the nostalgia doing the rounds with some reflections of the good, the bad and the ugly as I see it…
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Diabetes Christmas Gift Guide, Just Don’t!
Imagine being gathered around the Christmas tree and and unwrapping a startling visual reminder of diabetes complications. Well this is what some British diabetes organisation is suggesting people with diabetes might like to find in their Christmas stocking. What about…No?
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Incredible Bulldust from Supposedly Credible Sources
“Health Professionals should direct patients to credible online sources” this is the mantra of those wanting to continue to control the information people with health conditions can access. Well, what is a credible site Diabetes NSW? The IDF? The National Health Service of the UK (NHS)? They run all health services in the UK and…
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Saved by the Internet -Again!
So it was Thursday morning, my pump reservoir was empty but when I went to refill it, I found the button I needed to press wasn’t working. I pressed harder, I gave it a little break and put it in a cool place. Alas no, my very out of warranty pump had finally let me…
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Assessing Information from Health Professionals: How I do it.
Inspired by some of the anxiety I have witnessed at health conferences/talks recently around filtering health information, I thought I might turn the tables a bit. Sure we all know we need to evaluate health information on line but what about the health information we receive in consulting rooms/surgeries or hospitals. We all know it’s…
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Truth Spoken in Snark!
Ok, So I was feeling a bit snarky… it’s true though <sigh> That is all 🙂
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The E-patient and the Dinosaurs.
Time and again I find myself nodding at conferences or lectures when I hear a “patient’s” story of how the internet has or does make a huge difference to their quality of life/management of a medical condition or disease and its treatments. So it was again as I listened to e-patient Dave who told his…