TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR health

If you’ve been living with diabetes for a while, chances are you have a lot of practice participating in your own care. Sometimes tracking, checking and managing it all can feel like a full-time job. But here’s the good news: all that participation gets you closer to becoming an engaged patient – someone who equips themselves with information, asks questions and partners with supportive doctors to make better health decisions.

Dave deBronkart – a patient advocate, international speaker and co-founder of America’s Society for Participatory Medicine – is a prime example. After he was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in 2007, with an expected survival