quotable quotes - Early September 2012
"I applaud McDonald's for continuing to be a leader in providing nutrition information on their products and creating healthier options. I believe that with each step the big companies like McDonald's and Disney and others take, along with efforts by leaders like Mayor Bloomberg, we will see changes in our environments. This will eventually mean that making the healthy choice is the easier, not easy, choice. A key message offered by Brian Wansink, PhD at AADE this year was we've got to have environmental changes to reverse our obesity trends. Most people can't just white-knuckle it."
Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, author of Diabetes Planning Made Easy, in an email to diaTribe.
“You can manage a patient without a download, but you should not manage a download without the patient.”
Ms. Justine Fierman (St. Luke’s Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Scranton, PA) on the importance of patient input when interpreting insulin pump and blood glucose meter downloads, at the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators, August 1-4, Indianapolis, IN.
“I don’t mind going out there and saying that if you’re not using GLP-1 agonists in your practice, why are you treating diabetes? We owe it to patients to get them this type of therapy.”
Ms. Davida Kruger (Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI) at the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators, August 1-4, Indianapolis, IN.
“The level of innovation going on in healthcare is unbelievable. Barriers are starting to be overcome, and five years from now we’ll look back and laugh at how primitive we were today.”
Mr. Jeff Donnell (NoMoreClipboard.com, Fort Wayne, IN) at the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators, August 1-4, Indianapolis, IN.
“I recognize for many of us, we don’t have a choice on whether we take insulin, but we do have a choice as to how we take insulin. Any choice we can give our patients when they are living with something so challenging is really a gift.”
Ms. Jennifer Block (Stanford University, Stanford, CA) on the benefits of insulin pump therapy at the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators, August 1-4, Indianapolis, IN.
