Diabeties becoming the scarlet letter of the workplace?

January 1, 2007

Employers are struggling with diabetics in the workforce. Even a diabetic wonders whether she would hire someone with diabetes:

Even an outspoken advocate for diabetics like Fran Carpentier, a Type 1 diabetic and a senior editor at Parade magazine, understands the implications for business. “Knowing what it’s like to live with the disease hour by hour, day by day, I wonder if I owned my own company if I would hire someone with diabetes,” she said. “I’m being bluntly honest. And it kills me to say this.”

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