My family was not a medical family and I have to say there were many things about medicine that were a big surprise to me. One of the biggest surprises? My professors did not teach me how to treat diabetes. They taught me about the science of diabetes. They taught me about the medications that are available to treat diabetes and the lifestyle measures available for diabetes, but they did not teach me the defined best practices to treat diabetes. Even at the time, that seemed strange to me. When I graduated from medical school it was up to me to develop a treatment plan with information that I remembered in my head for each individual patient that I saw. I only mentioned diabetes, but the model is the same for every chronic condition that a doctor treats. That is still the prevailing model, but now things are much more complcated. There are
Very interesting piece; thank you.
Are the slides mentioned in it available?