Posts Tagged ‘diabetes’

Old Tech & New Tech Help Modern Medicine

One the biggest problems when it comes to providing medical service to people living in remote areas, is the scarcity of doctors to provide a service.  Having doctors traveling for miles to service just a few patients, is not the most productive use of a doctors time.  But, at the same time, people living in remote areas are ever so much deserving of good health care, as those living in downtown Manhattan.
A few years ago, some forward thinking doctors and technologists came up with a plan to treat the high level of diabetes that was plaguing many Navajo people.  Patients …