The stick for smokers, the carrot for diabetics

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The stick for smokers, the carrot for diabetics

Jonathan Bentley

Jonathan Bentley

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The idea of bouncing out of bed again gets a patient with diabetes to turn around his lifestyle. Yet at medical school, the "stick" of watching smokers die worked well for fellow students

I was fascinated, recently, to read an article about NHS outcome tools to be used in the UK, whereby doctors were rewarded for measurable outcomes. Th