"#iwishthatpeopleknewdiabetes means something different to everyone and took the time to listen. #doc #diabetes #Type1 #type2 #health" I posted this tweet this week, and it seems like there’s room to expand on the thought, particularly in the wake of ‘diabetes’...
News
Strange changes
Two weird things happened to me last week. One brilliant and expected, the other less so… The first: one of my best and oldest friends became a father for the first time. Sure, other friends have become dads, and...
Diabetes week
I’m usually fairly cynical about ‘awareness’ weeks or days. What does ‘awareness’ really mean? It’s up there with ‘advocacy’ in terms of woolliness. And what does it achieve? How does bombarding people’s social media for a short period of...
Diabetes education and its discontents
I’ve been involved in the diabetes world for a while now, and seen some great positive changes happen since 1999: making insulin pumps more widely available, a progressively humane attitude to diabetes management (albeit from a small base), and...
What Am I? A Diabetic or a Person With Diabetes?
Last week I posted a video discussing whether people cared about being called a ‘diabetic’ or a ‘person with diabetes’. To anyone without a dodgy pancreas or with normal sensitivity to insulin, the difference doesn’t perhaps mean too much....