2011 - 4th Quarter TCOYD Newsletter

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NEWSLETTER

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Fall 2011 Volume 37

Patient and Professional Inertia Major Barriers to Taking Control of Your Diabetes Dr. Edelman’s Corner

INSIDE Team Support Helps in the Diabetes Marathon Page 3

Getting the Most from Your Insulin Page 4

Question of the Month Page 5

A Menu of Love Page 6

Know Your Numbers Page 7

An Essential Diabetes Lifestyle Resource Page 10

TV Aurora Gold Winner Page 11

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atient and professional inertia refers simply to the delay in appropriate treatment due to a whole host of reasons but mainly ignorance, fear of change, unbreakable old habits and misinformation. Let’s tackle professional inertia first, as it is a HUGE problem and hampers timely and appropriate care for people with diabetes. When caregivers graduate from medical, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant school, multiple studies have shown that their practice habits get stuck in the mud. If a new treatment or device comes along,

getting providers of care to become knowledgeable about them, and then change their practices enough to prescribe them for their patients, is really tough and takes a long time…sometimes up to 10 years! I spend a lot of my time educating professionals to take better care of all of us with diabetes and it is so frustrating when I speak to doctors who have never prescribed Byetta or Victoza and have never heard of continuous glucose monitoring. This happens on a very regular basis and I just want to scream OMG, but I don’t, unless I am alone in my car! Patient inertia is different, as the individual living with diabetes is his or Inertia (continued on page 2)


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