Life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness while living with type 2 diabetes
Representation matters. But being in the room, in and of itself, is not enough to ensure that the many voices of people living with diabetes are heard or that disparate health needs are addressed. This is especially true when implicit bias also has a seat at the table.
Patient advocates can keep the one story from becoming the only story by producing materials for other people’s platforms.
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.
“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.
A recent talk by Michelle Obama got me thinking about diabetes advocacy
Perceptions of Stigma in the Diabetes Online Community – a poster presented at 2017 IDF Congress.