Once again I am moved to address a huge concern for teens and young adults: admission to the hospital for something unrelated to diabetes. I began to cringe upon reading a post on the diabeteens web site by one of the contributors who clearly knew more about type 1 diabetes management than the hospital personnel. This is scary and happens often because approximately 90 percent of diabetes is type 2 (or considered adult onset). Hospital staff are more familiar with T2DM medical management. Since...
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