Sometimes we get caught up in looking outside ourselves for validation. A person posted online that their doctor was pleased with their lab results. How much does that really matter? The doctor is there to guide you in managing your health. But how much does it really matter if the doctor is pleased or not?
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Even the most mundane of stories help us paint a more complete picture of life with diabetes
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Patient advocates can keep the one story from becoming the only story by producing materials for other people’s platforms.
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Virginia Woolf spoke of A Room of One’s Own. I’m suggesting A Blog of One’s Own. Or a podcast. Or a video channel. Or a website.
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“You don’t have to be a guru, you can be a contributor…” I had never heard of Denise Duffield-Thomas, but what she said resonated with me as wisdom for patient advocates.
Continue readingPerceptions of Stigma in the Diabetes Online Community – a poster presented at 2017 IDF Congress.
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