Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Whether it's questioning his own medical providers or the discriminatory practices committed against fellow people with diabetes (PWD) in other countries, Team Type 1 CEO and co-founder Phil Southerland challenges the status quo and helps people with diabetes see they can be the change they want to be.
Stubbornness and determination are two personality traits that are important threads that run through Phil Southerland?s life.
Southerland credits his mother, Joanna, for both traits. Southerland (pictured here) was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a seven month old. When the doctor told his mother that the young baby would probably be stricken with complications at an early age and likely die as a young man, she refused to accept this prognostication. Instead, she began to find doctors who could assist them and researched strategies in which she could help her young baby avoid his predicted fate.
Her refusal to accept the conventional wisdom at the time rubbed off on her young son who in turn developed a stubbornness and questioned medical authority, and it helped him to begin to chart a course of his own toward a dual career of sports combined with advocacy.
http://www.diabetescare.net/content_upclose_detail.asp?id=446495
Stubbornness and determination are two personality traits that are important threads that run through Phil Southerland?s life.
Southerland credits his mother, Joanna, for both traits. Southerland (pictured here) was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a seven month old. When the doctor told his mother that the young baby would probably be stricken with complications at an early age and likely die as a young man, she refused to accept this prognostication. Instead, she began to find doctors who could assist them and researched strategies in which she could help her young baby avoid his predicted fate.
Her refusal to accept the conventional wisdom at the time rubbed off on her young son who in turn developed a stubbornness and questioned medical authority, and it helped him to begin to chart a course of his own toward a dual career of sports combined with advocacy.
http://www.diabetescare.net/content_upclose_detail.asp?id=446495