MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Type-1 diabetes affects 3 million people in the United States. As a result researchers and clinicians have been working tirelessly to come up with a treatment that can maintain healthy blood glucose levels, while limiting any side affects from the treatments itself. This paper serves as a review of many of the current diabetes treatments and strategies that are currently being employed by physicians. In particular, this work examines conventional and intensive insulin treatment as well as the automated insulin pump. Ultimately, this paper aims to further educate clinicians regarding the risks and benefits of all insulin treatments currently in use.

Difficult reader- Physicians who are not endocrinologists

Response- Diabetes is a wide reaching disease and as thus many doctors will have patients that have diabetes. Therefore, it is important for all clinicians to understand the side effects of each insulin treatment because patients might be complaining of certain symptoms that may in fact, just be a result of the insulin treatment they are using to combat diabetes.

J -- this is your intended reader, though, the primary clinician? I think you can be fair to them about the range of diabetes patients regarding age, motivation, exercise, diet, lifestyle, conditions like pregnancy, menopause, aging, co-morbidity. Do we acknowledge more the difficulty in diabetic range/stages, more than the difficult reader?

Very good project for you, given the next four years of your training. :)