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Dr. Bill Quick

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Physician and Medical Director of DiabetesMonitor.com

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posted 11/21/2009, comments (0)

Lousy Reimbursement is a Barrier to Comprehensive Diabetes Care

A recent survey of physicians, Physicians' Perceptions of Reimbursement as a Barrier to Comprehensive Diabetes Care, highlights a well-known, ancient, and unsolvable problem: sometimes physicians simply don’t get paid enough to take care of people with diabetes (PWD). It’s certainly easier to scribble a prescription for an antibiotic... Read more Chevron

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David Mendosa

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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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posted 11/18/2009, comments (15)

"Food, Inc."

American agriculture changed more in the past 50 years than it did in the previous 10,000 years since humans started cultivating grains and domesticating cattle, pigs, and poultry. This affects all Americans, but none more than those of us who have diabetes, which started its steep rise at about the same time that our farms became so much more... Read more Chevron

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Dr. Fran Cogen

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Director, Child/Adolescent Diabetes Program at Children's Nat'l

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posted 11/17/2009, comments (0)

Letting Go. Transitioning to the Adult World (Part 1)

By their very nature, pediatricians and pediatric sub-specialists enjoy caring for children of all ages. At Children's National Medical Center, we care for children up until 22 years of age. Thus, our patients tend to "age out" after completing college or entering the workplace despite their wishes to remain with our Diabetes team indefinitely. I... Read more Chevron

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Gretchen Becker

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Author, Humorist, wildlyfluctuating.blogspot.com

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posted 11/13/2009, comments (4)

New Diabetes Research Prize

[Humor] It is with great excitement that I announce the creation of the coveted Becker Award for the Most Ho-Hum Research Published in the Recent Past (or BAMHHRPRP, pronounced "bamhhrprp"). The winner this month is a research study that showed that the caffeine in coffee interferes with sleep. Wow! I never knew that! I always... Read more Chevron

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Merely Me

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I am a freelance health writer who has a mom with diabetes

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posted 11/13/2009, comments (8)

Diabetes and Depression: What's the Connection?

It may or may not come as a huge surprise to those of you who suffer from diabetes that depression is closely associated with this disease. The American Diabetes Association tells us that people with diabetes are at greater risk for depression. They provide statistics which show that while the incidence of depression affecting the general... Read more Chevron

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