As a diabetologist at Children's National Medical Center, my job description goes beyond caring for patients, educating medical students/hospital residents, and participating in clinical research. Advocacy is also an essential component of my position. As I have emphasized in previous entries, the diabetes team helps to care and support our... Read more
Apparently our colleague, Ann Bartlett, touched a very sensitive nerve in her most recent blog about "the pump vacation." I have read the more than 30 comments addressed to her insightful blog and I wanted to chime in with professional (and at times, anecdotal) comments. As I have discussed in a previous blog, there is more than one-way to manage... Read more
On May 26 I was on my way to Children's National Medical Center listening to National Public Radio, when I was alerted that the announcement of President Obama's Supreme Court Justice nominee was to be released at 10 am. I was extremely interested, but this especially peaked my interest because one of the candidates was a 54-year-old New York... Read more
Once again, Ann Bartlett gave me a mission: find out about SmartInsulinTM. So, like everyone one else interested in learning about a topic, I used Google and asked a smart 25-year-old who can find information about anything on the internet. After an extensive scholarly search on Google, I was unable to find any preliminary controlled studies... Read more
Beth M. continues to toss out intriguing issues to address. In her most recent blog discussing her son's indifference to exercise and efforts to motivate him to move, she expressed hope for a "motivation potion" to enable desired behavior. Needless to say, I have yet to discover a motivation potion for everyone; however, through many years of... Read more
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