Jay H. Shubrook, DO: Hi. I'm Jay Shubrook, DO, professor at Touro University California, continuing our series Everyday Diabetes: Practical Management for Primary Care. Today I am delighted to have with me Kwabena Adubofour, MD, an internist and primary care diabetologist. He is the medical director at the East Main Clinic and the Diabetes Intervention Center in Stockton, California. We recently caught up with each other at the Stockton Diabetes Conference, a conference focused on enhancing the diabetes skills of primary care providers (PCPs). Thanks for joining us today.
Kwabena O. Adubofour, MD: Hello, Jay. Thanks for having me.
Shubrook: I recently had the opportunity to hear you discuss your recommendations for PCPs to consider before they prescribe medications to patients with type 2 diabetes. As you know, this is a tough task in primary care. We deal with many different medical problems and there are so many medications to choose from. Your pointers about what we should do before we prescribe were quite important. Share some of your recommendations with us.
Adubofour:We continue to see a large number of patients with type 2 diabetes in the primary care environment, and pharmacotherapy has become quite elaborate in terms of the sheer number of agents available.
