When Lou Gehrig retired from baseball he said, in his farewell speech, that he was probably one of the luckiest men on earth…..I know the feeling. Not because of diabetes, I wish that was not in the factoring at all but in a way it is. What is in the factoring……is YOU. If I attempted […]
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Very simple. It has been all over social media that people are dying from the missed diagnosis of diabetes, and specifically type 1 diabetes. We are entering flu season. November is DIABETES AWARENESS month……help educate the public. Here is a PSA to warn those, especially those who do not know anything about diabetes. Copy […]
Years ago there was a fabulous television commercial for Staples. The Christmas song is playing (sing along with me), It’s the most wonnnnn-derrrrr-fullll tome of year…..” and of course the camera pulls back to revel parents gleefully shopping for back to school supplies while showing the kids’ dour faces. Click here for the commercial. That […]
When doing a PSA or public service announcement, it’s always a fine line to capture all you can in just about 30 seconds. I have been working on this PSA for months, understanding that the viewer will probably know little or nothing about diabetes. Redoing, cutting, tweaking, and the entire time realizing that the REAL message […]
Diabetes is a disease. No question to that point. Diabetes is a business. Don’t fool yourself for one second to think it’s not. With the ‘buzz’ circling about the recent decision about insurance giant United Health Care allowing Medtronic as their preferred pump of choice and leaving others to scramble—-we need to take a hard look at […]
There are companies that serve the public with more feeling toward their stock holders than toward their patients. I have said time and time again, health insurance companies fit this bill more than any other company I know. I also believed that little can be done to fight these corporates giants…………..until recently. There was a […]