Recently I wrote about diabetes as a daily experiment. Soon after I realized it’s also like a quality improvement project. In QI there are lots of words and abbreviations. In QI they use words like adopt, adapt, and abandon.
Every day, while managing diabetes, we make decisions about what new practices, procedures or devices to adopt. We also constantly adapt what we’re doing to make things work better or differently. Finally, we need to be able to figure out when to abandon something that’s not working and move on.
All of this works most effectively with a clear mind and no judgment. Use the data in front of us, make a decision, and move forward. Just like everything else in life.