It was 10 PM and I was weaving on the boardwalk. “Are you okay? Are you okay,” my acquaintance Susan asked several times…
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What The “Forgotten Patient” Teaches Us
“Forgotten patients” are people who live well with a chronic illness. So well that we we barely see them. They are all b…
Two Very Different Diabetes Books By Those Who Live With It
Like my previous post, Pregnancy With Type 1 Diabetes, today I have a short review of two diabetes books also written by…
Pregnancy With Type 1 Diabetes
Forty five years ago when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes I was clearly told I couldn’t have children. I didn’t. To…
Presenting at the Premiere Charles H. Best Diabetes Centre in Toronto
I was honored to be invited to present the Flourishing Treatment Approach to 300 diabetes educators, nurses, diet…
“Hello? Hello, Doctor, Do You Hear Me?”
Dr. Danielle Ofri’s recently released, What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear, reveals not much has changed since Dr. Jero…
Mary Tyler Moore Leaves Us Recalling All The Good She Did
I met Mary twice. Although one time was really more of a sighting. I was walking down the street in Manhattan when all o…
Sanofi’s 12 Year Support for Face-to-Face Peer-Mentoring Ends
Tomorrow I fly to Detroit to give my last peer-mentor talk as an A1C Champion. Ten years I’ve been doing this now. Sanof…
Send Airplanes and Insulin and Save Thousands of Lives
In 1984 just before Christmas six year old Samanta in Equador was dying of her diabetes - because she had no insulin. In…
The Engines of Chronic Care: Hardware and Heartware
Trust me when I say I’m grateful for, and excited by, each technological advance and innovation that makes living with d…