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Dr David Brumley on the Importance of Keeping Patients in Focus at PCDC
With all the complexity in healthcare, it can be easy to lose track of what is important, which is helping the patient. However, Patient-Centered Diabetes Care brings the patient back into focus, David Brumley, MD, senior medical director at Tufts Health Plan, said after the 2015 meeting in Boston.
With all the complexity in healthcare, it can be easy to lose track of what is important, which is helping the patient. However, Patient-Centered Diabetes Care brings the patient back into focus, David Brumley, MD, senior medical director at Tufts Health Plan, said after the 2015 meeting in Boston.
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Transcript (slightly modified)
What did you get out of attending Patient-Centered Diabetes Care and why should someone attend the 2016 meeting?
The idea of the conference is great, it has a nice broad spectrum and I think it covers a lot of important aspects. I also think it's very helpful to have the "patient-centered" in the title, because we spend a lot of time thinking about the financial and the clinical aspects and the studies and the technology, but really all of it is really for helping members, helping patients. So I really think it's important to keep that in mind. It's easy to lose track of that as we get lost in all of the complexities of healthcare.
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