Tag: Healthcare professional
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Expectations
When it comes to my diabetes healthcare team, I am particularly fussy. I won’t settle for someone who won’t engage, provides me with generic advice or interrogates me on that one high BGL two months ago. I don’t spend hundreds of dollars to be guilt-tripped that I haven’t done enough for myself or…
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Diabetes Boogeyman
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are serious conditions. A person dies every 10 seconds from diabetes related causes. Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are demanding conditions to live with. Some people with type 2 diabetes are able to go into remission with positive lifestyle changes. But for many…
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Watch Your Language!
Language is a powerful tool. It’s a way of communication and expressing emotions. Certain words we hear have negative connotations associated with them such as disease or sufferer. Similarly, labelling a group of people can often generate negativity particularly if it’s used as a stereotype. Psychology suggests that we naturally…
Dr Ashley Ng 