In the past year how we speak about diabetes and the language we use with patients, has finally come to light. Words like “diabetic,” “test,” “adherence,” and “compliance,” are slowly being understood to be derogatory, limiting, belittling, prejudicial and downright mean. And, my all-time favorite, “control,” is an out and out lie.

Why? Read the article I wrote in 2014, “Let’s Stop Lying About Diabetes.” Nothing has changed.