Dr. Liesje Donkin: Overcoming patient reluctance to start insulin therapy

In this installment of GPLink, Dr. Liesje Donkin, a registered Clinical Psychologist and Health Psychologist, introduces some of the challenges patients face when looking to start insulin therapy.  Dr. Donkin breaks these challenges down and provides us with some practical strategies on how best to set the patients expectation towards therapy and helping improve their confidence in managing diabetes long term.