#391: Clinical Knowledge vs. Lived Experience - Why Knowing About Diabetes & Living With It Are Completely Different Things - Charity Dimas
Charity Dimas has spent her career in healthcare — EMS, medical assisting, nursing school, and now organ procurement, where she works with deceased organ donors and has learned more about the pancreas than she ever expected. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in March of this year. And the paradigm shift from knowing about diabetes clinically to actually living with it as a patient has been one of the most humbling and illuminating experiences of her life.
In this episode Charity and I get into what no one in clinical training ever teaches — that hormones, sleep deprivation, stress…
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