This happens to me all the time, just one of the many complex aspects of #type1diabetes management. The correction factor is a pump setting for giving 1 unit of insulin to lower blood sugar by x amount. It's a guess. The answer here is up, because you want less insulin. Got it?

A conference classic

The 'it's more of a comment than a question' which follows each talk where the ' questioner' tells everyone that they are right and the speaker is wrong

#eccmid2024 #escmidglobal2024

Oy. Dates are nature’s version of cookie dough. 🙄 #diabetes

Tomorrow I am scheduled for anESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY
Apparently it teaches you to speak Welsh.

Unwritten rule of big conferences

There WILL be two sessions you really want to be at, which are on at exactly the same time

#ECCMID2024 #ESCMIDGlobal2024

I’m a pediatric endocrinologist in Mississippi. I have 2 patients with Type 1 diabetes in my practice who are 18 and orphaned. One is a jr in high school (held back a grade after his mother died). Both lost their last surviving parent recently. Terrified of aging out of Medicaid

This looong wait for #Nerdprom speeches to start is spiking my blood sugar. #type1diabetes #WHCD

I'm becoming fascinated with the many ways in which #Otter transcriptions butcher what the speaker actually said, and how #AI contributes to what it comes up with. Latest example: It turned 'Roux-en-Y gastric bypass' into 'Ron Wyden gastric bypass.' 🤔 Ron Wyden

'Insulinotherapy?' 🧐 #diabetes link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Student: The patient is adamant that he feels fine but his wife reports—

Me: Admit him.

Not endorsing, of course. It was what it was.

When I was 9 and newly-diagnosed with #type1diabetes both my parents worked and I lived close enough to school to walk home for lunch by myself. No insulin pump, modern insulin, continuous glucose monitor, or even fingerstick testing. Today I write about #diabetes for a living.

I had to warn the patient that unfortunately this condition becomes chronic and there is no cure 😔😔😔

The what now?

This is a big deal; marking the first product actually manufactured by and commercialized by Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company

Last week on rounds, as I was holding a 2 yr old to listen to his lungs, he looked me dead in the eyes & reached out to carefully & seriously boop my nose.

Friends, I need you to know that this kind of interaction is the ENTIRE reason I became a pediatrician.

Bolus, basal, time-in-range, insulin-to-carb ratio, correction factor, IOB (insulin on board).' Also, high,' 'low,' 'spike,' 'drop,' and 'trend,' all with implied reference to blood sugar. (People living with #type1diabetes are of necessity ' #healthcare people.')

'Star Scooby Doo' - Otter's transcription of 'SARS-CoV-2' 🤣 #AI

And at the very bottom, #Diabetes & #Endocrinology 🤔

Automated med refills should be the absolute standard for those with chronic diseases