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It is not just the battle of curing diabetes, it is the way the entire health care system shares information. If it were not for the internet most diabetics would not even know that the researchers are even getting close. By the time your PMD, for those who don't have endocrinologist, gets this information, a patient may have suffered many of the unnecessary complications of diabetes. Here is a personal example: I am 43 years old . Type 1 diabetes for 30yrs I have been a Cardiology RN for 20yrs. I recently had coronary stent #8 put in.Now most of us know that ACE and Arb drugs help protect diabetic kidneys , what the renal MDs know and some how the MDs injecting the contrst for these studies don't, is that you should stop these drugs before and after for severals days to avoid contrast nephropathy or damage to the kidneys. Which is especially in diabetics who are at risk for kidney disease. In nursing we call the communication between care givers collaborative practice. Physicians call it golf.
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