I recently read this article posted on Endocrine Today, Demand for Diabetes Educators Projected to Increase Sharply.  My first question when I read this is if the demand is going up, then is the supply going to increase as much?  I am not going to give an economics class here because most of you all know this, but when the demand increases, the supply tends to go down.  But the supply for diabetes educators is already low, so, I’m not a genius but this doesn’t sound look a good situation.  I think that we already knew that the demand for diabetes educators is going to increase...

So with the AADE annual conference going on right now, it got me to thinking about diabetes education.  Who is qualified to give diabetes education, who shouldn’t be giving diabetes education, and should people who do not have a certification be able to give diabetes education?  Well, why wait, let’s get into all three of them now. Who is qualified to give diabetes education? Currently, if you are a CDE (Certified Diabetes Educator) you are qualified to give diabetes education.  Because you are certified!  What if you aren’t certified, does that mean that you are not...

Recently, Express Scripts looked to acquire Medco, which is still pending approval to my knowledge, but who knows.  This is my issue with this.  I have Medco, at least right now.  It seems that every year I have a new mail order pharmacy, and every year I get nervous about how easy or hard it is going to be to get my supplies.  Is there going to be an issue, do they have the strips that I use as a tier 1 or a tier 3.  So, now I haven’t switched insurance companies or supplier, but if this acquisition goes through then I will be using Express Scripts.  Typically mergers or...

I mentioned previously that I was switching to One Touch Ultra test strips instead of using the Freestyle Lite strips.  The reason is that Medco changed the Freestyle Lite to a tier 3 which is $150 for a 90 day supply, as opposed to One Touch Ultra’s which are only $25 for a 90 day supply.  I called the pharmacy today to see what I had to do in order to get the new strips ordered.  It seemed like it would be an easy process.  The customer service rep was very nice and helpful, so thank you for that, because unfortunately there are a lot of bad diabetes companies out there, trust me...

Unfortunately, I have gone through one of those stages where I haven’t been online at all.  No blog posts, no tweets, no Facebook updates, nothing.  I hate when I go through these time periods, but sometimes it just gets tough to fit all this stuff into the schedule.  I have so much that I want to blog about and talk about, but just wish I had a little more time in the day to do it all, don’t we all though? Onto other things, I finally got my travel schedule booked for the Roche Summit.  I am excited and can’t wait to meet all of you who are going.  Unfortunately, I...

I know there has been a lot of talk about stolen content.  Anybody that steals content should be punished by having their site banned by Google and their hosting company taking their website down.  Unfortunately, this happens so often every single day that it is nearly impossible for it to happen.  First, just actually finding the content is difficult, and then taking actions to get the site penalized, is even harder.  Honestly, people steal ideas all the time for blogging.  If you say that you haven’t then you probably just haven’t realized that you do it.  I’ve taken...