How to Find a 'Best' Hospital for Diabetes

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We have Illness and pre-death care. No attention is paid to food and nutrition, or to preventative tests other than mammogram and colo-rectal tests. Why? Because Big Pharma makes trillions off MD recommended treatments and nothing off good nutrition, healthy lifestyle, & good mental health. Likewise, Big "Food" Industry makes trillions off "food-resembling artificial substances," which are in fact, damaging the collective health of the nation and siphoning billions from the public treasury into the pockets of industrial dairy corporations, insurance corporations, for profit hospital and clinic corporations, and Medical doctor practices. In addition, main stream media makes trillions off advertising for all of the above so they can fill our minds with more propaganda for all the above mentioned "Health Care Organizations."
Wake up and understand the WE are the business product in the USA. Sick people who "need treatment and medication" are the basis of the number one industry in the USA... "Health Care." All colleges are now pushing health care professions as recession/depression proof employment. Meanwhile the Dairy and Beef industries set the recommended government Food Pyramid and USDA food stamps and WIC for infants and children refuse to pay for organic food even when the prices are comparable. We MUST feed our children animal growth hormones, excessive antibiotics, pesticides and harmful chemical fertilizers. We must fill our schools with pizza, sodas, and candy so that we will have more sick people ready to replace the dying product consumers. If it's good for business, it's good for the USA.
What a sick system and yet we are so dumbed down by education on the cheap that we don't even see what's going on. I don't blame doctors so much.
They are trained in medical schools supported by research and grants for Big Pharma. All they know is what they are taught. It's the American Way.

Sandy of ID 5:54PM March 01, 2011

I am 67 years old male having type 2 diabetes since 1999 and I was browsing through my computer and was happy to know that there are such good hospitals for people sufferring from diabetes and I will let my friends to know about it.

Randy of WA 2:02PM February 05, 2011

Wow, and the GI doctors should be blamed for constipation, the rheumatologists for arthritis, the pathologist for DEATH.

Stunned by DJ Emery of SC 8:22PM September 21, 2010

In answer to Mr. Emery's cavil against the medical profession for allowing complications to occur in their diabetic patients, he didn't mention how often (1) he checked his blood glucose level, and what were his levels of (2) Hb A1c, and HDL and LDL cholesterols. These all affect large vessel-related complications (heart attacks and strokes). Diabetes is a completely individual disease; there is no way the medical profession can wait on their diabetic patients 24 hrs a day – the patient HAS to do it for him/herself. The other big problem is that nobody really knows how to prevent complications arising from microvascular abnormalities, such as retinopathy, neuropathy and glomerulosclerosis, all of which Mr. Emery apparently has. Although maintaining Hb A1c below 7% is considered most important for inhibiting these microvascular diseases, it cannot be the whole story (about 1/3 of patients maintain this level – this is what doctors mean when they say that most patients are not monitoring themselves properly). Taking antioxidants might help, but this is hard to prove in humans, if they already don’t monitor themselves adequately for blood glucose (for Type I patients, at least 6 times/day). But even the best efforts at glucose control cannot completely assure the absence of complications, because diabetes is a membrane disease which involves many other factors.

brant of FL 11:47PM August 14, 2010

...I'd go to the top on the list, the Mayo Clinic. I've had type one diabetes for 36 years, I'm going to Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem to try to get on the kidney/pancreas transplant list.
I've suffered every complication of diabetes, and whan I got it in 1974 the best "bg check" was peeing in a cup and seeing how much sugar was in the body. it wasn't a good way to keep diabetes in control. Color told us what it was, not acccurate at all, more like a good guess. The medical field in most cases does not like to take the "blame" for diabetes care failure. But in my life time they try to put all the "blame" on patient management of the disease.
I think it is time for people with type one diabetes to file a class action lawsuit agaisnt the entire medical field in the USA for their failure to adequately care for diabetes patients of all types, for the failure they make in allowing such drastic complications to happen in the first place. In my opinion it is a business decision on the behalf of the medical profession. A decision that more complications they allow, the more money they can make. We as diabetes patients over the years have been like sheep the mdical field has gleened for the profits. Real care and solutions for preventing complications has not been a real goal at all. Profit has been the goal.
A class action law suit could the change the attitude of the entire medical professions field of view. I see it as wrong right now, because I see a lot of fault on the other side of the coin, not just my side for my mistakes over the years.
I speak from 36 years of living the reality of it.
I'm a dialysis patient now with a lot of diabetes related health complications that the medical field is making a fortune off of. Already this year my dialysis has cost over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars just to stay alive.
I think it is time to cure diabetes. But the medical profession in the USA is more interested in profit from the results of complications, and that is my honest straight forward opinion of the disease and it continuous human disasters. I've seen a lot of friends with diabetes dead now, RIP for them all, but it was unneeded in my opinion, the deaths I've witnessed.
A class action law suit to improve diabetes health care in a serious way is needed to straighten out the corruption I see in the USA's health care system overall.
Dwight J. Emery
Spring Lake, North Carolina

Dwight J. Emery of NC 1:37PM August 14, 2010

$17 SCAM!

Mitch of CA 6:50PM August 13, 2010

I once believed the lie about diabetes until I found out that the pillmakers and health insurance companies make billions$$ and do not want a cure. It is sick that private health companies run the USA When a European filmmaker discovered how to reverse diabetes without medication the drug companies did not promote the story
Just google SPIRIT HAPPY DIET

Janet of CA 3:18PM August 13, 2010