health 2

Who longs for the days of the trouble solid unit of measurement MD having fourth dimension to pass alongside y'all together with genuinely hear to your issues?  How virtually those abode visits y'all recollect equally a child when y'all were also sick together with the MD genuinely came to your home?  Those were the romantic days of trouble solid unit of measurement medicine together with what many of us dream of when nosotros sign upwards for medical school. These days, thank y'all to corporations together with insurance companies, the hospital has larn a patient manufactory where patients see the doctors for 8 minutes to mash inwards their concerns.  It isn't the doctor's choice to produce this but they are owned yesteryear companies dictating their schedules.    More together with to a greater extent than insurance companies together with particularly Medicare are dictating medical choices together with doctors receive got to lead the path of to the lowest ...

Insurance.  Oh the quandary nosotros are in.  Insurance is a God-send for a crisis together with at that spot is no other province I would rather last inward for a crisis whether it last due to a severe infection, trauma, oculus attack, strokes, or whatsoever other crisis.  However, how are nosotros for chronic diseases though or the average twenty-four sixty minutes catamenia to day? We ranked 34th inward the footing per JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) 2014 for character of wellness tending systems inward the world! We are number 1 for Infant together with Maternal Mortality. We possess got to realize that insurance is a organization laid upward for a crisis of your wellness tending only non wellness. With the e'er shortening catch to your MD (often 5-15 minutes), nosotros possess got to regard what tin post away last done during that time.  Doctor's possess got a depository fiscal establishment check listing of character tending measures to con...

So I was smack dab inwards the view of finishing my, “Bitch of a Low, The Aftermath,”  post (which I volition pose out tomorrow inwards its entirety,) when Chester, the wonderful CS Senior Apple Rep called me today - And an 1.5 hours before than he said he would.  Some Back Story: I FINALLY ordered a novel iPhone 6+ inwards September.   It was time, I was walking around amongst a 3g that was on its terminal legs & was finicky to tell the least.  But the argue I held on to my 3G for thence long was simple. I had voicemails from my mom on that telephone that  I couldn’t handgrip hearing. But didn’t desire to lose  them either .  And nobody at Apple or AT&T could tell me if they would safely transfer to a novel phone, s o I held on tightly to the old  phone  and technology until I could bargain amongst those voicemails properly.   Last calendar month I ordered my novel 6+ in addition to idea I had iv to vi weeks to b...

This ship was based on a recent conversation I had amongst friend. We tin give the sack wishing all nosotros want, but nosotros also conduct hold "to do." We gotta construct the listen. We must demand, nosotros must "do," in addition to nosotros must become the alter nosotros desire - In our lives in addition to our lives amongst diabetes ######  Dear H ealth Insurance Companies:  I wishing I knew what my diabetes required tomorrow - I really, genuinely do, because it would construct my life in addition to then much easier inwards in addition to then many ways.  I wishing I had a crystal ball that would accurately enjoin me just how much insulin my torso volition need, xxx days, ninety days in addition to 365 days a twelvemonth downwardly to 1/5 unit of measurement - but I don’t know, because my diabetes requirements are never the same from 1 24-hour interval to the next. That doesn’t construct me non-compliant - that makes me a mortal living amongst diabetes -...

I e'er set off changing an infusion fix that’s less than 48 hours erstwhile - non because I’m lazy, but because of insurance coverage re: my supplies in addition to the  lack at that topographic point of.  And it drives me crazy.  In a perfect world, 1 box containing 10 infusion sets  = 1 infusion fix every 3 days, which = a thirty solar daytime calendar month supply.  In a perfect world, 3 boxes of infusion sites = a xc solar daytime supply. But that’s non how whatever of this plant inwards existent life because life isn’t perfect, in addition to life amongst diabetes is anything but - fifty-fifty when y'all create everything correct - which is pretty damn impossible, diabetes or not.  Yep, 4 boxes of infusion sites every 3 months  gives us a little relief in addition to a picayune wiggle room and  are the keys to our mental in addition to physical health.     ########  As I stated above, I almost e'er jibe off cha...

Today is twenty-four hours 4 of Diabetes Blog Week - And today's topic is all near changes  in all  dimensions that  you'd similar to meet re: diabetes. Here are my thoughts (OK, it's a rant,) on the topic of "changes," as well as I promise you lot tin relate ######### Changes when it comes to diabetes - where the hell produce I start?  For starters, I’d similar the Diabetes Blame Games to cease.  I’d similar people (John as well as Jane Q Public & media folks, THIS MEANS YOU,) to teach the diabetes facts instead of perpetuating the diabetes myths - regardless of the type. Hey media - people amongst diabetes don’t attack, zombies do.  Don't study near someone going into insulin daze spell driving as well as and needing insulin - Insulin is the concluding affair they bespeak as well as your going to destination upward killing someone. Ever remove heed of Sunny VonBulow - GOOGLE IT. And halt amongst the whole “he or she suffered fr...

Today, along amongst other fantastical Diabetes Patient Advocates, I accept the accolade of manage the DiabetesMine Innovation Summit beingness held at Stanford University's Medical School, at the Li Ka Shing Conference Center.  The  DiabetesMine Innovation Summit is a “Diabetes Think Tank” consisting of patients; Pharma, inventors, investors, HCP, manufacturers in addition to payers sdiscuss diabetes conception inward all dimensions.  I’m beyond thrilled to hold upwards manage the summit in addition to I’m incredibly grateful to DiabetesMine for i time once again spearheading this yearly number in addition to for choosing me every mo i of the 2015 Patient Voices Scholarship winners.  Do y'all desire to bring together inward in addition to scout the Diabetes Mine Innovation Summit conversation unfold online?  Go for it! Jump on the twitter in addition to follow the hashtag:   #DBMineSummit . FTR: My travel, lodging, in addition to some meals...