Second-Guessing Carb Counting: Is There a Better Way? We diligently check the carb counts on food packaging, and do the carb-counting guess-math in our heads any time we've got food in front of us on the table.But as any PWD (person with diabetes) knows, carb counting is not a perfect science.Just as......
Developing Standards ‘Of, By, And For’ Older Adults: Reflections On Patricia Gabow’s Narrative Matters Essay Imagine three people: a healthy 30-year-old, a 60-year-old with high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis, and a 90-year-old who is frail and has dementia advanced to the point where her speech often doesn’t make sense. If I lined them up, any doctor could instantly tell me which was which. Ditto if each broke a bone and I showed the physicians only their x-rays. And if I asked the clinicians to predict each patient’s risk of complications and adverse events based on nothing more than the few words above, they would again rapidly and reliably make accurate assessments. Yet, for the...
