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Dr. Bill Quick

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A Checklist for Patients with Diabetes When Surgery is Planned

In 2008, the WHO released a very general safety checklist to help make surgery safer. The WHO checklist has been tried in multiple hospitals, and according to discussion in the New England Journal of Medicine, "The rate of death was 1.5% before the checklist was introduced and declined to 0.8% afterward... Inpatient complications occurred in 11.0%... Read moreChevron
posted 01/16/2012, comments (2)|
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Medical Journalist Living with Diabetes and Author of Fitness and Photography for Fun, www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog
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Dr. Bernstein's Big Book

If you follow a very-low carb diet to manage your diabetes, you have no better starting point than the big book by Dr. Richard K. Bernstein. Even if you have been on a very low-carb diet for years, as I have, this book is a basic guide to refer to again and again.Until a few days ago I had only four of his books. Three of them, Diabetes Type II,... Read moreChevron
posted 01/12/2012, comments (19)|
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Director, Child/Adolescent Diabetes Program at Children's Nat'l
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Blood Sugar Control WILL Lead to a Decrease in Microvascular and Cardiovascular Complications

It is always appropriate to provide good news; but even more exciting when a study continues to "keep on giving." The 1993 Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT), which is likely the most quoted trial in the history of scholarly diabetes, continues to provide further promising news in regard to diabetes microvascular... Read moreChevron
posted 01/10/2012, comments (0)|
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Medical Journalist Living with Diabetes and Author of Fitness and Photography for Fun, www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog
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Telcare: A Good Call for Reporting Blood Glucose

Right along with the theme of ringing in the new year, I want to tell you about the latest in blood glucose testing devices. It’s called Telcare. Its unique calling is how it instantaneously sends the good news about my managed low glucose sugar readings via wireless cell phone technology directly to my password-protected web page account.... Read moreChevron
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Dr. Bill Quick

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Ninety Years of Insulin Therapy

A recent article in the Toronto Star, Miracle on Bloor Street, reminded me that insulin therapy's 90th birthday will be arriving this week. Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old teenager who had lost weight to 65 pounds, received his first injection in Toronto, Canada on January 11, 1922. He dramatically improved, and went on to live thirteen... Read moreChevron
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