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Author, Humorist, wildlyfluctuating.blogspot.com
Gretchen Becker studied biology for 8 years at Radcliffe/Harvard,...
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Friday, December 19, 2008
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Every time the results of some new study are reported with press releases to the popular press, we get a slew of stupid headlines that oversimplify, overstate, or simply misreport the results of the study.
For example, a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, know...
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Trinkwasser
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 11:28 AM
How many overworked GPs are going to read headlines like this and tell their recently diagnosed type 2 patients that there's no point being too strict about BG control: "Go ahead and eat all those Chrismas cookies because you're going to die of heart disease anyway"? I hope not many.
Sadly this is already happening in the UK. Well maybe not the cookies bit but the "tight control is unneccessary" bit, and even "your A1c (in the fives) is too low, we want to see it over seven by your next visit"
All Journalists Are The Spawn Of Double Glazing Salesmen
maybe that headline is true
How many overworked GPs are going to read headlines like this and tell their recently diagnosed type 2 patients that there's no point being too strict about BG control: "Go ahead and eat all those Chrismas cookies because you're going to die of heart disease anyway"? I hope not many.
Sadly this is already happening in the UK. Well maybe not the cookies bit but the "tight control is unneccessary" bit, and even "your A1c (in the fives) is too low, we want to see it over seven by your next visit"
All Journalists Are The Spawn Of Double Glazing Salesmen
maybe that headline is true