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Diabetes Spectrum 14:180-181, 2001
© American Diabetes Association ®, Inc., 2001

Editorial

What Is Our Legacy?

Belinda P. Childs, ARNP, MN, CDE

Legacy (n): Something that has come from a predecessor or the past.1

A few months ago, I was at a gathering of about 20 diabetes clinician-educators. We introduced ourselves, as is common practice. It was startling to me that all of the educators in the room had been in practice for more than 20 years. We had all entered the field of diabetes education within 2 years of each other in the late 1970s or early ’80s.

What was special about that time? First, teams of health care professionals had been pulled together primarily by pediatric endocrinologists who had the vision to see the overwhelming challenges facing families of children with type 1 diabetes. They recognized that multi-specialty teams were a necessity for these families to successfully manage diabetes.

Technology was also advancing. Self-monitoring of blood glucose was becoming available, which greatly changed what people with diabetes needed to be taught. Now people with diabetes had tools to help them make decisions with their diabetes care team.

The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) began in 1983, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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