Are patients marginalized at health conferences?
Recently, I was bemoaning the fact that while the first conference specifically addressing diabetes and depression was a good start, there really wasn’t a significant patient presence. Lots of experienced professionals in the field, but startling few people who had actually walked-the-walk with significant depression for years, decades even.
While this format will surely offer a lot of information from the professionals viewpoint, it seems that it would be a bit …


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