Empowered Patient Podcast

Dr. Eden Miller is an osteopathic board-certified family practitioner, a type 1 diabetic, and Founder of the nonprofit organization Diabetes Nation. The guidelines for injection technique have not been updated in 10 years, and poor injection can lead to improper medication absorption and other complications. The recently released FITTER Forward Guidelines address established approaches for clinicians and patients to improve injection practices, especially for those using injectable therapies such as insulin or GLP-1 agonists.  This initiative was brought together by embecta, which worked with Dr. Miller and other experts to revise the guidelines. Eden explains, "So the FITTER Forward Guidelines are taking the concept of injection technique and injection instruction, and giving it a fresh new look, a new peering back into something that many of us as clinicians kind of feel that we have nailed down. But what we have found with looking into communicating with patients, how to do injections, and how to maximize