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Meet your models
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April 21, 2011
During the week of our diabetes mission, we were fortunate to meet several people who we just had to step back and say, wow, you are really doing an a...
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Our Lady of Georgetown
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April 12, 2011
Our mission trip to the Georgetown clinic was the first of the week. Similar to last year, the Georgetown clinic was very, very busy. Many people had ...
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Thank you to our Vincy Family
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March 29, 2011
By the time you read this article, the members of the Patsy Douglas Diabetes Medical Mission will all be back in the United States, where we currently...
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Your feet don’t lie
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March 8, 2011
In preparation for our Patsy Douglas Diabetes Initiative Mission trip coming up later this month, I would like to review with an article about foot ca...
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The trip approaches!
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March 1, 2011
In a few weeks I will be touching down at home, ready to start another week long diabetes mission trip with my colleagues. Like last year, I am gratef...
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Direction counting
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February 22, 2011
Before I start our discussion this week, I would like to send out a happy reminder: our Patsy Douglas Youth Empowerment Foundation Diabetes Mission tr...
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The plan, if you are Pre-diabetic
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February 15, 2011
With all this talk in Sugar Matters during the past few weeks about pre-diabetes, some of you may be wanting some more specifics. I urged you to take ...
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First comes “pre,” then comes what?
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February 1, 2011
Remember that game we all played as children: first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes so-and-so with the baby carriage etc? Even as kids pla...
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A tale of two ladies
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January 25, 2011
This week I would like to introduce you to two women: Lady A and Lady B. One of them is in her 30’s and the other is in her 60’s. They are both wo...
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Heading your way, again-Mission 2011
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January 18, 2011
Here is your first heads up, and I am giving everyone WAY advanced notice! Following up on our prior trip in 2010, the members of the Patsy Douglas Yo...
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Listening and thus avoiding more harm
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December 7, 2010
Last week, I had the sad fortune of being called in consultation for a patient whom we had seen just a few weeks earlier in the hospital. This woman h...
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Men getting checked for diabetes
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November 30, 2010
A recent article/tribute in our newspaper spoke of a gentleman Mr. Providence who recently died of prostate cancer. His widow, through her grief, shar...
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Are you being hard-headed?
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November 23, 2010
This week’s example will ring a bell with many of you, either reminding you of someone you know or even yourselves. I hope not you…. I was asked t...
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Celebrating World Diabetes Day
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November 16, 2010
For this year 2010, World Diabetes day will be celebrated on Sunday, November 14. The slogan is “Let’s take control of diabetes. Now”. Amidst th...
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Diabetes and stress
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November 9, 2010
This is a question that comes up very frequently in clinic, and also in normal conversations: Can stress make your blood sugars go up? The answer is t...
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Beyond sugar numbers in Diabetes
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November 2, 2010
These past few weeks we have talked a lot about monitoring blood sugar levels themselves, both with your own glucose meter as well as with the A1C lab...
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When the meter doesn’t make sense
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October 26, 2010
There are a few common questions I get in clinic related to readings patients get when checking their blood sugars at home. You may have some question...
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A few cautions about the AIC test…
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October 19, 2010
I know for a fact that most of you reading this have an A1C drawn more often than you do a finger stick check, because from what I recall from our vis...
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What are your target numbers anyway?
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October 12, 2010
Despite discussing this at various times, many patients seem to forget what their target numbers are in regard to their diabetes. If you are fortunate...
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Checking your blood sugars at home
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October 5, 2010
In an ideal world, everybody would own their own glucose meter (glucometer) for checking his or her blood sugars outside of clinic. He/she would check...
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Cold, flu season approacheth…
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September 28, 2010
Yes I know it still feels like a hundred degrees outside. However, the full brunt of cold season will soon be on us. Do not be mistaken -viruses can p...
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Sometimes you will be surprised…
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September 21, 2010
This past week a young man of 19 was admitted to my hospital with a blood sugar over 600 ketones in his blood, and he was VERY VERY SICK. He just avoi...
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Quiz Time! And no cheating!
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September 14, 2010
Since we talked a bit about the foot care and screening protocol last week, AND because I have talked about it several times in the past, it is time t...
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Some great news from our trip…
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September 7, 2010
Okay, so hopefully you all remember the medical trip I was blessed to be a part of in April this year, when I accompanied the Hopkins medical group in...
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Make the most of your clinic appointments
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August 31, 2010
I was reminded by a patient this week that many patient-doctor relationships are still the way they used to be: where the doctor does all the talking ...
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Can you be allergic to Insulin?
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August 24, 2010
This week I saw a very interesting man in the hospital. He was concerned that he had an allergy to insulin and shared his story with me. This man, in ...
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Low-Fat diets for weight loss – yes or no?
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August 17, 2010
One of the reasons I love attending my conferences is that there is always some great overlap with other fields. The Nutrition-based lectures are alwa...
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Foot reminders – Get them examined!
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August 10, 2010
One of the sessions I attended at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting this year dealt with diabetic neuropathy-damage to the nerves by dia...
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When other illnesses intervene
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July 27, 2010
I am interrupting our series on new information from the American Diabetes Association meeting to discuss something very important. In the past we hav...
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Looking at changes in treatment of diabetes
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July 13, 2010
Tomorrow I head out of town to attend the American Diabetes Association meeting, one of the biggest meetings each year for people who treat and do res...
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Preventing Diabetes
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June 22, 2010
Okay, let’s do a quick review of this very important topic. I hope you have been reading and thinking over the past three weeks!{{more}} 1)Type 2 di...
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‘Will I get diabetes?’
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June 11, 2010
There is of course no way of knowing 100% who will and who won’t develop diabetes. Modern science is discovering genetic information that can tell u...
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How to know if you have diabetes
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June 4, 2010
We received so many interesting questions during our trip home in April, let me tell you again. Among many, which I will try to cover over the rest of...
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“Curing” and Preventing diabetes
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May 28, 2010
This week I want to continue on the thought we started last week: the idea of either “curing” or preventing type 2 diabetes. I mentioned a while b...