Mountain Metabolics: Pam Gesford, Diabetic Educator

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Healthcare is Human: Mountain Metabolics continues an in-depth look at individuals working in obesity, diabetes, and metabolic healthcare in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. We meet Pam Gesford RN, who tells Healthcare is Human:

"We celebrate when patients start to exercise, the completion of a pregnancy, a slight change in their A1C, all of the things that are pertinent to their diabetes management. I work as a diabetic educator and have been a registered nurse for fourty-four years."

This episode includes the original Poem, Upon Watching North By Northwest I Am No Longer Young, read by its author, Renée K.Nicholson.

Healthcare is Human was created by Ryan McCarthy and is a signature program of the Internal Medicine Residency at the Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg, WV. 

This podcast is engineered by Kym Mattioli.

Visit Healthcare is Human on Facebook and Instagram to see incredible photography by Molly Humphreys, native of Shepherdstown, WV, whose world-class portfolio can be found by searching for Piccadilly Posh Photography. 

Healthcare is Human is supported by the West Virginia Humanities Council, WVU Medicine, and generous donors in our community.

Isaac McCarthy plays the banjo to open and close the show.

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