VIDEO: Importance of educating patients on testing for advancing diabetic retinopathy, DME

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I tell primary care doctors, nurse practitioners, or physician's assistants who are taking care of patients with diabetes to educate their patients that the most common symptom of advancing diabetic eye disease is no symptoms at all. I tell these primary care providers to educate the patients regarding the importance of going to get their eyes tested for advancing diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema, or any other manifestations of their diabetic systemic disease in their retinal exams.