Practice Management
In a prior editorial, I described the case of Thomas, a young man among the “worried-well,” who presented to urgent care (UC) with anxiety related to an alarm that sounded as a result of a malfunction of a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), which was prescribed despite his lack of a diagnosis of diabetes, out of concern for abnormal blood glucose levels.[1] The underlying issue prompting his visit was not hypoglycemia but what I refer to …
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“Low blood sugar” was his chief complaint, but Thomas was in my urgent care (UC) mostly because he was feeling anxious. It wasn’t hypoglycemia that was making him nervous either. Thomas didn’t have diabetes or take any medication for high blood sugar. Regardless, he was wearing a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), which he lifted his shirt to show me when I entered the room. Thomas explained his primary care physician (PCP) had prescribed the device …
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