Category: My Diabetes Inklings
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Healthcare During COVID19
Part of my research interests revolves around mobile health and integrating that into mainstream healthcare system. Mobile health can include things like online peer support, online platforms used to deliver health services and telehealth. For years, there has been advocacy for telehealth subsidises and its integration into metropolitan hospitals. And…
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Social Distancing with Diabetes
How the world has changed so quickly within a few days/weeks/months where we’re suddenly living out the Contagion movie. I didn’t think it would take me so long to adjust to isolation life; I was always keen on the idea of working from home anyway. It wasn’t until I saw…
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The Guilt of Privilege
I have access to subsidised (aka free) CGM and I feel guilty as heck for it. As my diabetes educator signed the forms, the wave of emotions hit me. I was excited, happy, relieved, angry and frustrated. It felt incredibly unfair that I was accessing CGM without cost while others…
Dr Ashley Ng 