Medical Review
this website is not reviewed by a licensed clinician. No doctor, nurse, pharmacist, or diabetes educator signs off on these pages. We put this on its own page, and repeat it at the bottom of every article, because a health site that stays quiet about it is letting you assume otherwise.
Why we say this so plainly
Plenty of health sites carry a line reading "medically reviewed by" followed by a name you cannot verify and a date you cannot check. We are not going to add ourselves to that list. The honest version is simpler: there is no clinician behind this site, so nothing here should be read as though there were.
What we do instead
Because there is no clinical reviewer, the scope of the site is drawn tightly enough that clinical review is not the thing standing between you and a bad outcome. Every page is restricted to organising your day: what to gather, what to write down, who to contact, what to have ready before you call.
Concretely, no page on this site is permitted to state a clinical number, a dose, a threshold, or a frequency; to tell you to start, stop, or change any medicine; to interpret a reading or a symptom; to give dietary or fluid instructions; or to perform anything resembling symptom checking or risk scoring. Those rules are enforced automatically before publication, and drafts that break them are held back rather than reworded. Our Editorial Policy sets out the checks in detail.
The effect is that the questions a clinical reviewer would exist to get right are questions this site refuses to answer at all. It sends them back to the people who can answer them for you.
Where the clinical content actually comes from
Everything clinical on this site belongs to somebody else, and we link to it rather than restating it. Every page lists the public reference pages it was written from, with a link and the date we last opened them. Those come from the CDC, the American Diabetes Association, NIDDK, and MedlinePlus. See Sources for how we use them.
Who should be reviewing your sick-day decisions
Your own care team, working from your prescriptions, your other conditions, and your history. The written sick-day instructions they give you are the thing this site keeps pointing you back to. If you do not have them yet, asking for them is the single most useful outcome this site can produce for you.
If your symptoms are severe, if you cannot safely look after yourself, or if you are not sure whether this is an emergency, stop reading and call 911 or your local emergency number.
If you are a clinician
If you work in diabetes care and something here reads as clinical guidance, or as an instruction dressed up as organisation, we want to know. Write to and quote the sentence. See Corrections for how those are handled.