Who We Are
Welcome. We're Kris Swenson and Betty Brackenridge, diabetes educators who have spent a lot of years (over fifty between us) listening to our patients. We’ve built DMTC's programs on what we've learned from people who live with this disease and from the best today’s science has to offer. Here's what we value and work to bring to everything we do. Our patients tell us they are the most important things. And they are essential to achieving effective, long-term control.
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Complete current information – people with diabetes and their providers need to understand all the choices and possibilities |
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Skill – because what you do makes more difference than what you know. |
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Support – because diabetes is a burden, sometimes lighter sometimes heavier, but always there. Diabetes is easier to carry with support. |
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Respect – because you deserve it. Whether you are a person with diabetes or a provider working in the field. This isn't easy. |
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Love – because DMTC's programs promote and guide "relationship centered care." Most medical care is "fear based." That's not who we are here, and it doesn't work for most people anyway. |
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And, believe it or not, a GOOD TIME -- diabetes is serious but it doesn't have to be grim. Jokes, cartoons, and the simple reality of being human mean that laughter is both possible and desirable as we come together to make a difference in the lives of people with diabetes |
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