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...most Type 2 diabetics don't have to resort to insulin shots to manage their condition. Because the fundamental problem in Type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance--not the inability to produce insulin as in Type 1--other options are available. Your physician may first give you pills that can either sensitize your body to insulin's effects or help your body produce more of the hormone. But some of your best allies in this struggle are your muscles. Building them up and using them regularly in such pursuits as walking or dancing draw more glucose out of the bloodstream...
There are ways to keep costs down. It doesn't take a physician to teach a patient the principles of better nutrition or how to use a glucometer. Nurses, nutritionists, diabetes educators and other non-M.D.s can play a key role. Experts say it's important to reach the communities that are hardest hit by diabetes--American Indians, for example--all the while taking cultural differences into account. "You can't give everybody the same diet to solve the problem," says Albright, a registered dietitian. "People obviously eat the foods they've grown up with. So you have...
...don’t want to be overdramatic—no cadre of doctors descended upon me, whisking me away to testing. But the RN did call me back within minutes, and a half hour later when my primary physician showed up, I was already in good care. (Which brings up another thing we should be thankful for—UHS seems to employ the last remaining nurses in the world who are both caring and great at their jobs. I’d grown so used to the businesslike barking of nurses in the outside world, I was surprised...
...When my physician decided that I was too dehydrated and in too bad of a state to be sent home, there was no time wasted in admitting me. No one handed me any papers to sign. No one demanded a copy of my health insurance card, birth certificate or written affidavits from three former business associates attesting to my integrity, honesty and willingness to throw my body in front of an oncoming bullet if that’s what it takes to save the Queen of England...
...services you request. This is fabulously expensive and bound to grow more so as the baby boomers retire. Most Republicans and many moderate Democrats want to restrain costs by moving toward a system of managed care--which is what most non-elderly Americans now receive through HMOs and preferred-physician networks. The Medicare bill contains a six-city test of managed care, which would begin in 2010. This tiny experiment is what sent the Democrats up a wall. "We're not going to let seniors be herded into HMOs," Dick Gephardt harrumphed. Their alternative? Well, they don't have...