Dictionary.com defines paradox as “a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth”.  Today’s medical model is quite the paradox, where the system professes to want us to take ownership and be responsible for our health, yet the same system encourages “standards of care” that put us all into the same bucket.  While we all may have diabetes, we all have very different beliefs, cultures, expectations and goals for our lives.  It is within the context of that backdrop that our expectation of health is created.  It is only within that context that our providers can truly help us.