Educating a patient with diabetes mellitus. At this point you have understood in detail about diabetes mellitus, its management and complications. You can appreciate now why it is important for you to educate the patient and the community about diabetes. As it is a chronic disease ‘cure' is not possible, but it can be controlled. Just prescribing medicines to the patient will not help to control the blood sugar and the disease. Continuous monitoring, education and motivation of a patient with diabetes is important. As you know, in our country it is not possible for all the patients especially those living in rural or difficult areas to go to a doctor for help. They may go once and sit at home and may not follow the advices. Hence, you need to educate, guide and motivate the diabetic patient to follow the advices of the doctor. Education about the disease will give confidence to a patient in coping with the disease.