#395: Why Adult Care is 20-30 Years Behind the Adolescent Care

It’s Halloween week, and Graham opened with a confession about a bag of fun-size candy that was supposed to be for trick-or-treaters. So I asked him to go back to 10-year-old Graham: what did Halloween look like with Type 1 diabetes in the late ’90s? His answer opened up a much bigger conversation. Before fast-acting insulin and insulin-to-carb ratios, management meant eating the same foods, at the same times, with the same insulin doses every day. Kids were told to avoid candy, not because o...