Joslin's Diabetes Deskbook: A Guide for Primary Care Providers

by Richard S. Beaser

More than 20 million Americans have diabetes, which can lead to blindness, kidney failure, and amputations. This book from the world-renowned Joslin's Diabetes Center in Boston is directed to primary care providers--internists, family practitioners, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dieticians, counselors--who manage diabetes in their patients most every day. The authors discuss the pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications, along with the most current thinking and guidelines about diagnosis, prescription, monitoring, nutrition, exercise, medications, insulin, patient education, and many other topics. All chapters have been peer-reviewed.

714 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Silvano Paternoster]

A nifty and comprehensive book essential for any MD or researcher in diabetes

[Johnny Kavanagh]

A very good read I must say, went out with a girl years ago who had Borderline Diabetes and was using Pig insulin at the time as it was the only type of insulin available, now we have Human Insulin but also Medicine has come on in leaps and bounds, unfortunately that girl I used to date is no longer here , she died at the age of 31.This disease is a barbaric Killer,slowly spreads all over into the eyes to an extreme the Retinopathy can no longer fight it, very hard to control Blood Sugars and always in danger once Diagnosed with type 2 = borderline which is insulin dependent.I learned everything about the disease in about 5 years knowing this girl, from keytones, hypoglycemia to hyperglycemia, the different reactions are scary, you can have too much sugar or not enough,if treating the patient for one reaction or the other it's CRUCIAL to know which reaction they are suffering from, the reaction cure can be a glass of orange juice to a candy bar or A shot of quick acting insulin to control matters.