GLOBAL HEALTH: Patient Power Best to Manage Diabetes

Audio Journal of Global Health Issues reporting from American College of Physicians Annual Meeting: Internal Medicine 2007; San Diego April 19-21 Patient Power Best to Manage Diabetes REFERENCE: ABSTRACT Press Release, San Diego ACP 2007 HILARY SELIGMAN, University of California, San Francisco Doctors can best help their patients with diabetes by taking particular care to put management into the hands of the patients themselves, rather than asking them to slavishly follow the doctors' instructions, conference-goers in San Diego heard. A new ACP guide booklet for diabetes management called "Living with Diabetes", designed to be used by patients in consultation with their doctors, has made concrete improvements in diabetic management, according to results from a study released during the American College of Physicians annual meeting. Peter Goodwin talked with one of the authors of the new initiative, Hilary Seligman.