"OKAY . . . I was hanging back on this but since it has triggered such an outpouring, here's my $0.02, in bullet form.
(1) Repeat after me: doctors are trained to intervene and attack acute illness -- They are not trained in day in, day out…"
-
Kevin McMahon
- Male
- Sausalito, CA
- United States
- Blog Posts (6)
- Discussions (34)
- Events
- Groups (4)
- Photos (11)
- Photo Albums (1)
- Videos
Kevin McMahon's Groups
Kevin McMahon's Discussions
Inviting Contributions for Paper To Teach Docs About Social Media
Started this discussion. Last reply by David (dns) Apr 4. 18 Replies 0 Likes
Kevin McMahon's Page
Latest Activity
David (dns) replied to Kevin McMahon's discussion 'Inviting Contributions for Paper To Teach Docs About Social Media'
Brian (bsc) replied to Kevin McMahon's discussion 'Inviting Contributions for Paper To Teach Docs About Social Media'"Diabetes is a chronic condition, it has to be dealt with every day. As such, it needs a holistic treatment and for the most part the healthcare system can only provide part of the answer. You can go to a doctor to get medicine or insulin, you can go…"
acidrock23 replied to Kevin McMahon's discussion 'Inviting Contributions for Paper To Teach Docs About Social Media'"Re Brian's question re pitfalls and Kalobe asking about why medical folks might question people communicating, I think their objection is that we are basically practicing medicine without MDs nor with malpractice insurance. We have *tons* of…"
Kalobe replied to Kevin McMahon's discussion 'Inviting Contributions for Paper To Teach Docs About Social Media'"Why do the medical folks think it is so bad to communicate with other diabetics? It's good to know that you are not alone and interesting to see how others cope. I was left for years as a new diabetic with no contact with any other diabetics. I…"
Terry replied to Kevin McMahon's discussion 'Inviting Contributions for Paper To Teach Docs About Social Media'"I am pleased to read that at least some docs understand the power of social media. I think the doctors see medical info on the internet as some kind of Wild West. To a certain extent it is. What I don't like are doctors that don't think…"
Judith replied to Kevin McMahon's discussion 'Inviting Contributions for Paper To Teach Docs About Social Media'"Mmmm....Zoe and supporters said it well. Too many of us are diagnosed and turned loose with enraging little happy, happy brochures from our docs. TuD is indeed an especially informed and informative environment.
I'm a Bernstein low-carber for…"
Kevin McMahon replied to Kevin McMahon's discussion 'Inviting Contributions for Paper To Teach Docs About Social Media'"Thanks everyone so far... plenty of the comments in support of the POWER of 'social media' in diabetes care (and I will be defining that term up front). Is the DOC and/or facebook, twitter, etc... always a positive addition? Surely there…"
Profile Information
- The PRIMARY person in my life who has diabetes is
- 1 or more of my children
- The PRIMARY person in my life who has diabetes has
- Type 1 or type 1.5 (LADA) diabetes
- How do you hope to benefit from TuDiabetes?
- a way to share factual and grounded progress on different areas of diabetes research
- What pump model do you use, if any?
- Animas 2020
- Enter your website, if any (blog, Facebook, Twitter)
- http://kevinlmcmahon.com
Kevin McMahon's Photos
Kevin McMahon's Blog
Throw away your logbook, now!
Posted on September 21, 2008 at 8:00pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
Happy to announce that our trial with kids is showing that our group with the 'magic report' have reduced A1c by over 0.6 compared to the control group. They do practically nothing but receive our report and then look at it about once a week. This frequent thoughtful review, which takes all of about a minute, appears to be the reason behind this significant improvement in blood sugar control.
Compared to everything else I know this method of review is generating far superior outcomes… Continue
Compared to everything else I know this method of review is generating far superior outcomes… Continue
GlucoMON®-RT wrapping up Beta testing
Posted on December 16, 2007 at 11:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
If you need Real-Time remote glucose alerts for monitoring a friend or family member (e.g. - your child with type 1 diabetes at school, field trips and sleepovers) you should contact me by email at kevin@diabetech.net
New Pump Accessory
Posted on August 16, 2007 at 8:14pm 3 Comments 0 Likes
Type 2 Social Networking Clinical Trial Results Presented at ADA Scientific
Posted on June 29, 2007 at 6:57am 3 Comments 0 Likes
See my post at ChallengeDiabetes.com
84% of type 2 participants reduced their A1c an average of 1.1 pts on the A1c! This stuff takes a long time to put together so comments from the Tu community would be greatly appreciated.
More data on type 1 trials will be published shortly. And, a new trial for gestational diabetes is kicking off soon.
84% of type 2 participants reduced their A1c an average of 1.1 pts on the A1c! This stuff takes a long time to put together so comments from the Tu community would be greatly appreciated.
More data on type 1 trials will be published shortly. And, a new trial for gestational diabetes is kicking off soon.
Reps to Tu Diabetes
Posted on June 22, 2007 at 7:51am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Comment Wall (14 comments)
You need to be a member of Diabetes community by Diabetes Hands Foundation: TuDiabetes to add comments!
Join Diabetes community by Diabetes Hands Foundation: TuDiabetes
- At 9:04am on February 13, 2010,
liz joseph said…
- Oh, gosh! I guess you don't get the "don't eat sugar" comments! LOL, the first time I saw your pic, it said you have Type 1... I see now that you work in diabetes research! That's great! Thanks, BTW ;) Anywhoo... I'm still bound and determined to make a video explaining the differences between Type 1 & Type 2 diabetes and the breakdown/difference between CHO and sugar (pardon the pun, LOL hee hee)... So glad to be new friends!!! :D
- At 8:59am on February 13, 2010,
- Hi Kevin! LOL, I'm sure you can relate - I always get the comments from friends & family saying "Don't eat sugar!" or "You CAN'T eat sugar!" and they think i GOT diabetes from eating TOO MUCH of it! LOL... I'm trying to find the end-all, be-all video to stop this myth from continuing... To no avail, however, LOL. Maybe I can do more research and make MY OWN video! I think my head is going to explode the next time my aunt points to me from across the room at a birthday party, as I'm getting some cake, and yells "YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT!.... here, eat more pizza" LOL (she's a nurse, too... sad sad sad!)
- At 11:30pm on July 24, 2009,
Patti Burns said… - Hi, Kevin! How's it going?
- At 9:36am on March 31, 2008,
Chad said…
- At 9:08pm on July 4, 2007,
V.K. Rajagopalan said…
- Hi Kevin,
I will definitely check out your site.
Thanks
Raj
- At 8:52pm on July 4, 2007,
- Hi Kevin,
Thanks a lot for your very useful comment at my blog.
Raj
- At 2:08pm on July 3, 2007,
Penny R. said…
- And, I will add your blog to mine:-)
- At 1:05pm on July 3, 2007,
- Kevin,
I do most of my blogging at www.threeyearsfree.blogspot.com.
I too take my son further for his pump. The local pediatric endo would not consider putting him on one. He was 3 when he started on it and he's done very well with it.
Glad to have you at Tu.
- At 9:26am on July 3, 2007,
- Hi,
Just wanted to welcome you to the parents of kids with type 1 group!!
- At 8:43am on June 16, 2007,
Scott K. Johnson said… - Hi Kevin!
That's what they tell me - my eyes have been stuck like this for a while now. I'm trying to get it all "straightened out"...
Nicole P has been trying to help me out, but no luck so far.
:-)
Advertisement
REsources
Groups
From the Diabetes Hands Foundation blog...
Congratulations Diabetes Advocates Scholarship Recipients!
The Diabetes Hands Foundation and Diabetes Advocates Program is proud to announce and congratulate the members of DA who were granted scholarships to attend diabetes conferences in 2013! Thanks to a generous grant from Novo Nordisk, in 2013 we were …Continue Reading
La Familia de EsTuDiabetes Sigue Creciendo
El Centro Nacional de Prevención de Enfermedades Crónicas y Promoción de la Salud en el Estados Unidos encontró que a partir de 2002-2009, el 11,8% de los hispanos mayores de 20 años, que viven en los EU, viven con diabetes …Continue Reading
TuDiabetes Team
DHF STAFF
 Manny Hernandez(Co-Founder, Editor, has LADA)
|
DHF VOLUNTEERS
Lead Administrator
 Bradford (has type 1) |
Administrators
 Lorraine (mother of type 1) |
 Marie B (has type 1) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
LIKE us on Facebook
Spread the word
This site complies with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information: verify here.
© 2013 A community of people touched by diabetes, run by the Diabetes Hands Foundation.
