Importance of precision
One patient’s response to a diet opened Professor Mikael Ryden’s eyes to the difficulties of generalised recommendati...
Long-term view
Professor John Wilding discusses how a patient he’s seen over many years shaped his view of type 2 diabetes and the i...
Mutual benefit
Professor Richard Bracken reflects on what patients gain from participating in clinical trials.
Listen carefully
Professor David Matthews reflects on two patients who challenged his ideas about quality of life and how that changed...
Preventing complications
Professor Nisa Maruthur reflects on the patient whose cascade of interventions caused her to shift the focus of her w...
Rising to the challenge
Professor Xavier Cos reflects on the elderly couple who changed his perspective on treatment possibilities.
A key enzyme
The mystery of a patient with unexplained hypoglycaemia and elevated C-peptide took years to solve – listen to Profes...
Life-changing treatment
Professor Stephanie Amiel reflects on the patient who was able to expand her horizons after an islet transplant.
Unique response
Treating a retired paediatric surgeon who suddenly developed problems after switching insulins emphasised important l...
Typecasting
Dr Banshi Saboo reflects on a patient whose diabetes and weight were out of control before he gave her a life-changin...
An open mind
Professor Baptist Gallwitz reflects on the combination of a patient interaction and an invaluable piece of advice fro...
Adding and adapting
Dr Michael Nauck reflects on a patient who struggled with rising glucose concentrations and what he taught him about ...
Accentuate the positive
Complimenting patients can fall by the wayside when there’s poor compliance. Professor Cees Tack discusses the patien...
A unique insight
Professor Richard Holt reflects on the highly motivated and intelligent medical students with type 1 diabetes that he...
HIIT man
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) can make big differences to insulin sensitivity, glycaemic control and cardio...
There’s something about Maria
Professor Stefano Del Prato on one woman’s determination to make the most of new treatment opportunities – and what i...
Medication complication
How the explanation – and solution – for one woman’s apparent stroke was found in the packaging for her sulphonylurea...
Hypo impact
How one woman’s liberation from severe life-restricting hypoglycaemia showed Professor Eelco de Koning the transforma...
Control and complexity
Professor Francesco Giorgino on a case that underlined the challenging nature of type 2 diabetes, even when a patient...
Hidden activity
The mystery behind a woman’s twice-weekly hypos was solved by Professor Hinde Iraqi. Her story highlights the questio...
A fuller picture
Professor Roy Taylor is at the forefront of research into the impact of weight loss on type 2 diabetes remission. Lis...
Compassion and connection
A new clinic for post-COVID-19 patients changed the way Dr Ehtasham Ahmad thought about diabetes management. Listen t...
Footloose
Professor João-Filipe Raposo on the patient who taught him to think outside the guidelines box when it comes to physi...
Controlling risk factors
Professor Sally Marshall on how a patient from the early 1990s who was heading for end-stage renal disease sparked he...
How far we've come
Professor Thomas Danne on how one patient’s struggles brought home to him the vital importance of good glycaemic cont...
Real-world evidence, real-life difference
Dr Marc Evans on the difference up-to-date knowledge and technology can make for people struggling to cope with hypog...
Comfort eating
Professor Chantal Mathieu on a case that revealed some unexpected consequences of bereavement for glycaemic control.
Typing error
Professor Julia Galhardo on a what discovering the true cause of her diabetes meant to one patient’s care and wellbeing.
Guarding against the perils of pilgrimage
Professor Salem Beshyah on cases that highlight the need for proper footcare during Hajj.
For the want of a nail…
How one woman’s loss of sensation almost lost her her foot – but inspired Professor Solomon Tesfaye to devote his car...
Stepwise
How one patient’s experience of starting on an insulin pump showed Professor Pratik Choudhary why new tech only deliv...
What makes us click?
What one patient’s unexpected treatment choices taught Professor João-Filipe Raposo about the mysteries of supporting...
Mother courage
Hear how a mother’s determination to overcome NASH and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes in order to have a second ch...
Pump pioneer
Professor Thomas Danne on how a three-week-old child with transient neonatal diabetes helped to transform insulin-pum...
What a difference a type makes
Professor Catarina Limbert on a complex case of childhood diabetes that highlights the impact cause can have on effec...
Through the eye of a needle
Their blood glucose is going through the roof but they’d rather die than start insulin injections. What do you do? Pr...
The midnight feast mystery
Professor Kåre Birkeland on how continuous glucose monitoring helped solve the riddle of one man’s unexplained hyperg...
"They taught me everything I know about obesity"
Hear how insights into the burden of obesity, which bariatric surgeon Dr Dimitri Pournaras gleaned from listening to ...
The real burden of insulin therapy
Professor François Pattou on how discussions with patients and their families through his work in islet transplantati...
Diabetes in reverse
Hear how Professor Carel Le Roux first became aware of the true breadth of benefits metabolic surgery can have for pe...
Sweet combination
What can you do when a patient has good glycaemic control but high CVD risk? Dr Marc Evans on a case that highlights ...
Cruel complications of youth
Professor Filip Knop on how one woman’s long-hoped for pregnancy drove home to him the importance of doing everything...
Education, education, education
Professor Ketan Dhatariya on the tragic case that taught him never to take other people’s awareness of how to treat D...
A case of mistaken identity
The finger of suspicion points squarely at diabetes, but have all the right questions been asked? Rayaz Malik (Profes...
A delicate balance
There are no easy answers when advising patients on fasting during Ramadan, says Professor Wassim Hanif (University H...
Great expectations
We expect people with type 1 diabetes to reproduce the physiology of the pancreas with inadequate tools, then tell th...
A very common case
Cases of type 2 diabetes may look straightforward, but the causes are always complicated. Professor Stefano Del Prato...
The case of dementia that wasn’t
Professor Brian Frier (University of Edinburgh, UK) with a cautionary tale of glucose-lowering therapy in older peopl...
It’s good to talk
Professor Frank Snoek (Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands) on how a hidden phobia confounded efforts to...
When the clinical picture doesn’t quite fit
Professor John Wilding (University of Liverpool, UK) on why he thinks twice before making a clear diagnosis of type 2...
ALT to play for
How testing liver function in patients for a research project helped Professor Naveed Sattar (University of Glasgow, ...
The mystery of the unexplained sun tan
Type 1 diabetes may not be the only autoimmune disease to look for, as Professor Chantal Mathieu (University of Leuve...