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May 12, 2021 By e-Patient Dave 9 Comments

Question for the diabetes community: should Freestyle readings match finger sticks?

Screen capture from Peer To Peer Health Advice video

This is an exercise in “peer to peer health advice.” I’m asking for advice, from “the DOC” (diabetes online community) – more on that below.

Here’s a message I received from someone who’s really peeved about a technology for managing his Type 2 diabetes. Does your experience match his? Should his digital device match the results from finger sticks? If not, for heaven’s sake why?

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Filed Under: diabetes, e-patient requests, Patient-centered tech Tagged With: cgm, diabetes, e-patients, freestyle libre, type 2 diabetes 9 Comments

February 20, 2019 By e-Patient Dave 1 Comment

“Superpatients”: free webinar for medical librarians [February 2019]

Update: here’s the archive recording of the webinar.

Original post:

Tomorrow (Thursday Feb 21) at 2pm ET, for the second time I’ll be presenting the concept for my new book, Superpatients: Patients who extend science when all other options are gone. The first time was December, in a private webinar for the QI [quality improvement] Connect team in Scotland. Registration is open to the public here but that’s optional – at bottom I’ll paste in how you can join it at showtime, without registration. In any case it’s free and no obligation.

Click to register – see details below
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Filed Under: Participatory Medicine, patient engagement, superpatients Tagged With: e-patients, healthcare, medical librarians, nnlm, participatory medicine, patient empowerment, patient engagement, patient experience, superpatients 1 Comment

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