Assembling Your
Treatment Team and
Support Network
Controlling blood glucose levels successfully takes time and effort. Your illness may affect relationships with your partner, other family members, friends, and colleagues, and you cannot take a holiday from your illness. All of these things can be overwhelming, but with a strong team, you can manage your diabetes. This chapter describes how you can assemble the treatment team and support network that you need for the long-term management of your diabetes.
Unlike many other chronic illnesses, diabetes requires significant decision making on a daily basis. I tell my patients that the most important aspect of diabetes care is
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Publication information:
Book title: Diabetes Demystified.
Contributors: Umesh Masharani - Author.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2008.
Page number: 53.
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