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Hey everyone! As chair of our PAC's Professional Development committee, I can say this event is going to be amazing!!! We've put a lot of time and effort in gathering the best speakers in the field of diabetes. Please spread the news, and register today!

To my health provider friends - this clinical skill is reached by the very best in our fields of practice. I encourage you to journey towards clinical success. We'll meet along the way. Dear practitioner, Chronically ill patients have to live their disease for the rest of their lives. The medical system often fails people like me by constantly re-engaging with the stubborn face of my disease and failing to engage with the lived body behind it. In your well-meaning campaign to... re-seek success in terms of cure you shuffle me to comply and reject me if I don’t pursue the goals of the clinicians, even when the probability of success is very low. Everyone is afraid when the restitution narrative fails. When you find you have strayed off the medical map and are floundering in the wasteland beyond the restitution narrative, remember that you have a guide with you. You have an expert patient who will show you what he/she needs and how you can best support he/she. Encourage me to reclaim my experience with vulnerability as normal. It is normal to be vulnerable, after all, and not the other way around. In our love affair with medicine we may have forgotten that. Sit with me. Listen to me as I tell you what’s important for me to be able to re-engage with life. Reassure me of your support whenever I need it, whatever my decisions. Be honest with me about your distress and sense of helplessness, and let me know you will continue to be available as a resource to me. Be comforted by what can happen beyond the restitution narrative when I am allowed to rise above patient status and make decisions about my quality of life and the way it is storied. ‘What do I want in a doctor? I would say that I want one who is a close reader of illness and a good critic of medicine’. (Broyard 1992, p.39). See more

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KAL Orthoses is considering to carry (for the first time!) sandals this spring/summer 2015 season!! Would you be interested in purchasing a pair of supportive and athletic looking sandals? Check out the website, and let us know! http://www.yoursole.com/ca