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Eyes On The Prize, People.
As you’ve no doubt read already, some feelings were hurt this week when the Diabetes Research Institute did a press release touting their new idea, the BioHub. It included a carefully edited 5 ½ minute...
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Things to consider this weekend.
Just finished up a great visit with my endocrinologist this morning. More about that next week. In the meantime, in case you didn’t hear about these, here are a few things for you to mull over this...
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The Patient/Corporate Paradigm.
I read an interesting article in the New York Times on my flight back to Baltimore yesterday: An MS Drug Takes a Feisty Approach Aimed at Younger Patients The article talks about the new oral drug to...
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Find Mari Ruddy.
Can’t believe I just wrote that. Mari Ruddy, athlete and T1D, one of the driving forces behind Red Riders at the ADA’s Tour de Cure events, is missing. From the website FindMariRuddy.com: Mari was last...
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Mari Ruddy has been found.
UPDATE: From findmariruddy.com: Mari’s family have just given us the following update, as of 6 PM Thursday 6/13: “Mari is currently in stable condition and in the ICU. We thank you again for all your...
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Yay Vacation! On to Philly for #DSMA, then Ohio.
I’m on vacation! It has been a long time since I’ve taken consecutive days off, and I’m starting six days off that will take myself and The Great Spousal Unit first to Philadelphia, then to Cincinnati,...
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About that #DSMA Philadelphia meetup.
Since I’m back from vacation, and I finally have wi-fi access for the first time in almost a week, I should probably talk about the DSMA Live and DSMA Twitter chat that happened last Wednesday night...
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To share or not to share.
I’ve seen, heard, and read discussions lately regarding how much, if any, personal information we all like to give out online. The questions are many and varied: Do I share personal information?...
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Like these links– Friday edition.
Happy Friday! I hope that somehow you’ve either avoided the terrible weather gripping the country right now, or that you’re safe and warm wherever you are. I haven’t done this for a while, so I thought...
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April DSMA Blog Carnival: Surviving Social Media Burnout.
The April DSMA Blog Carnival topic is an interesting one. As Karen says, “Just as we can have bouts of diabetes burnout, we might also have bouts of social media burnout.” So true, so true. Our...
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How to react? How not to react?
For the benefit of anyone reading this months down the road: CrossFit, the fitness company, posted a tweet that was particularly offensive to People With Diabetes. It was wrong, both in its tone and...
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Diabetes Social Media Burnout?
Welcome to Tuesday. September 1st. Oh, and it’s my brother’s birthday. Happy Birthday Chuck! Thanks to the people at Diabetes Daily, today is also Diabetes Social Media Burnout Blog Day. According to...
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What does that mean, anyway?
After my interview with Rick Phillips for TuDiabetes Tuesday, I took some time to reflect on what we discussed. There were a lot of acronyms in there: CGM, DSMA, and a couple of others I can’t remember...
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T2 Series: Mark your calendar.
Hey, did you know that TuDiabetes has a super live interview series? Every week, they’re interviewing someone new, talking about subjects that we all care deeply about. During the month of October,...
View ArticleDisappointed.
That moment when someone who’s inspired you turns out to be a jerK? I experienced that this week. There’s a doctor in Las Vegas, who goes by the moniker ZDoggMD online. He’s gotten a lot of notoriety...
View ArticleThe Facebook Group phenomenon.
I’ve been added to about seven different Facebook groups lately (no, wait– it’s actually eight). All are diabetes or health care advocacy related. Is it me, or is this becoming a thing? Sometimes, it’s...
View ArticleAnother Blogabirthday.
Today, Happy Medium turns 6. Today, I turn 56 years old. And yes, even though I’m not close to retirement, I’m at least doing the math. Another Blogabirthday is here. The 788 blog posts I’ve shared,...
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8 Things: Communicate wisely.
Let me just say from the outset… I doubt that many who actually need to read this will do so. Also, I’m not even going to try to top what Renza wrote, because it says so much of what I’m thinking too....
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