Diabetes Talking

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Out of all the diabetes glucose monitoring machines for home use, which one is more accurate?  Or are they all basically the same?

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dr. Barret rents against food supplements, but he has admitted taking several himself regularly. This is not uncommon among some doctors. At a meeting last year, doctors were asked to raise their hand if they prescribed DHEA for patients. Few did. to the question how many took DHEA themselves, half of the doctors raised their hands. See? We’re being protected! Al snip    This sort of thing is not necessarily hypocrisy, BTW.  Doctors, like everyone else, may be willing to take risks themselves that they would not foist on their patients in the guise of knowledge.  It’s one thing to experiment on yourself with the latest health fad, something else to experiment on your patients with it.  Most doctors feel some responsibility to suggest only things they are relatively sure of.  We try not to put all of our trusting patients on the herb of the month or the hormone cure de jour.  We don’t always succeed.                                                Steve Harris, M.D.

Hypocrisy…. that  word has a very strange ring to coming out of your keyboard and "all of our trusting patients"…. give me a break…. your flock of sheep for shearing, your lambs led to slaughter perhaps. As we continue to witness the accelerating COLLAPSE OF ORTHODOX MEDICINE and as people learn to think for themselves, your "trusting patients" will turn into your lynch mob if you  (M.D.’s) don’t start finding some better answers. http://www.trufax.org/ Aloha,   Dave.          Think for Yourself.     Question Authority

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Dr. Barret rents against food supplements, but he has admitted taking several himself regularly. This is not uncommon among some doctors. At a meeting last year, doctors were asked to raise their hand if they prescribed DHEA for patients. Few did. to the question how many took DHEA themselves, half of the doctors raised their hands. See? We’re being protected! Al

    I very much doubt if half of medical doctors are taking DHEA. Vitamin E, maybe, and your story has mutated.  Certainly half of cardiologists take vitamin E.    This sort of thing is not necessarily hypocrisy, BTW.  Doctors, like everyone else, may be willing to take risks themselves that they would not foist on their patients in the guise of knowledge.  It’s one thing to experiment on yourself with the latest health fad, something else to experiment on your patients with it.  Most doctors feel some responsibility to suggest only things they are relatively sure of.  We try not to put all of our trusting patients on the herb of the month or the hormone cure de jour.  We don’t always succeed.                                                Steve Harris, M.D.

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