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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee
Diabetes is common. When I'm on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I'm on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications.
Given how frequent monitoring and prescribing issues arise in the care of patients with diabetes in late life, including the end of life, Eric and I were excited when Tamryn Gray emailed us requesting a follow up podcast on this issue. Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 - 5 years ago seems ancient history -…
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