[Diabetes-talk] What can we do?

Tue Feb 10 23:45:42 UTC 2009

Eileen
All i am saying is that if the medical field can't make money off of 
anything that concerns diabetes they will have nothing to do with it.
i once asked a doctor i saw here anemdo if he would like to have the voice 
in his office.his response "i see no need for it?
oh well!
Debbie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eileen Scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] What can we do?


> Debbie:
>
> This raises a few more questions.  I understand that people who are blind 
> are on limited incomes and may not be able to afford to pay for a 
> subscription to the Voice, but what about Doctor's, hospital's & other 
> medical professionals?  Certainly, they can afford to pay a subscription 
> fee.  Out of the circulation numbers, how many go to people who are blind 
> and may not be able to cover the cost of a subscription & how many go to 
> medical professionals?  Do doctor's give away services for free?  I think 
> not.
>
> And, why increase the cost of the publication with color pictures?  Isn't 
> the mag primarily for those who are blind?  Perhaps the focus has changed 
> somewhere along the line from presenting good information to the blind/vi 
> community to trying to attract sighted readers?
>
> Eileen
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "catdancing" <catdancing at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] What can we do?
>
>
>> this just seems to figure as far as diabetes and anything related to the 
>> disease that doesn't bring in a lot of money to support the disease. The 
>> Voice is a great magazine the reason it is being eliminated is because it 
>> is helpful and no one in the medical field is making a huge profit from 
>> it.
>> Debbie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Elizabeth Lunt " <boo.lunt at verizon.net>
>> To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 4:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] What can we do?
>>
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>> I feel I must finally write in here. The cost of the Voice of the 
>>> Diabetic
>>> has not "skyrocketed" and I'm not sure where this information is coming
>>> from. Even with the much-improved design and full color, the costs were
>>> controlled, and money was coming in from ads and sponsorships. However, 
>>> it
>>> simply costs a lot to print and ship so many copies -- our circulation 
>>> for
>>> Voice of the Diabetic is over 300 thousand copies per quarter. It was 
>>> very
>>> popular among readers and diabetes educators and demand was high. 
>>> Gathering
>>> the information, selling advertisements and getting education grants, 
>>> and
>>> writing and editing the publication accounted for staff members' time, 
>>> as
>>> well as other diabetes advocacy activities such as pushing for 
>>> accessible
>>> diabetes technology. Dr. Maurer has made a decision to cut the entire
>>> Diabetes Initiatives project, which included publishing Voice of the
>>> Diabetic. He has said that some diabetes activities will be folded into 
>>> the
>>> duties of existing staff at the NFB, but the rest of us have been let 
>>> go. We
>>> did the best we could to present up-to-date, helpful and inspiring
>>> information about both diabetes and coping with diabetes with limited or 
>>> no
>>> vision. There will not be another issue of the magazine, because Dr. 
>>> Maurer
>>> made his decision after the Winter issue went out, and he is folding the
>>> project now, before another would have gone out in the spring.
>>> Thank you for your support over the years. I have enjoyed working on 
>>> this
>>> publication. I hope you will get the full story, or try to, before
>>> continuing this conversation with NFB leadership.
>>> All the best,
>>> Elizabeth Lunt
>>> Editor, Voice of the Diabetic
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
>>> Blindhands at aol.com
>>> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 1:17 PM
>>> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] What can we do?
>>>
>>> Diabetes is the number 1 cause of blindness in the USA.  It ranks up 
>>> there
>>> throughout the world.  What can we do to stop or have them at least
>>> consider
>>> another  way of continuing the Voice of the Diabetic  publication.
>>>
>>> NFB is always asking us to contact our Senators and House of 
>>> Representative
>>>
>>> members, how about calling or emailing our President of NFB  to "Voice" 
>>> our
>>> opinion and thoughts on this?
>>>
>>> The blind depend on word of mouth to learn about things, that is why we 
>>> are
>>>
>>> encouraged to talk about NFB to everyone blind and sighted.
>>>
>>> I understand that the cost of the publication has sky rocketed, but do 
>>> we
>>> need color photos and the new look of the Voice?  I am sure those are 
>>> some
>>> of
>>> the reasons that caused the price  to soar.
>>>
>>> I am disappointed with this decision.  I do know that there has been
>>> concerns in the past years about the  money going  out for this 
>>> publication
>>> and the
>>> NFB covering the  cost.          the circulation of  this publication is
>>> over
>>> three hundred thousand .
>>>
>>> Mike, do you know if there will be a notice put into the Voice and  will
>>> there be a final Voice sent out or is it just over like that ?
>>>
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