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Rather than just deleting what structure is here, I would like to see proposals of what people think should be here.

[[User:Drakeula|Drakeula]] ([[User talk:Drakeula|talk]]) 02:43, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

== Where to cover things like artificial pancreas? ==

Background: glucose monitors and insulin injectors are products that have existed for a while. In theory they could be combined to monitor sugar levels and adjust insulin accordingly (as the pancreas does). For some time this combination was available through do it yourself solutions, but not available as a commercial product. (There may be commercial products in this space now, I haven't checked. Even if there are, the point remains that there was a time when they did not.)

There are issues impacting consumers relating to both glucose monitors and insulin injectors in this space. It seems cumbersome to duplicate things and try to share this between articles on CGM and insulin injectors. So, in an instance like this, should this be covered as a product page (even if the product is not something any particular company makes)? Does this fit as an "incident" although there is no even or particular time involved?

I pose this partly because it would help to know, and partly as an example of the sort of issue to be considered in planning a structure for coverage of medical devices on the wiki. Thanks. [[User:Drakeula|Drakeula]] ([[User talk:Drakeula|talk]])

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 Rather than just deleting what structure is here, I would like to see proposals of what people think should be here.
 [[User:Drakeula|Drakeula]] ([[User talk:Drakeula|talk]]) 02:43, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
+== Where to cover things like artificial pancreas? ==
+Background: glucose monitors and insulin injectors are products that have existed for a while.  In theory they could be combined to monitor sugar levels and adjust insulin accordingly (as the pancreas does).  For some time this combination was available through do it yourself solutions, but not available as a commercial product.  (There may be commercial products in this space now, I haven't checked.  Even if there are, the point remains that there was a time when they did not.)
+There are issues impacting consumers relating to both glucose monitors and insulin injectors in this space.  It seems cumbersome to duplicate things and try to share this between articles on CGM and insulin injectors.  So, in an instance like this, should this be covered as a product page (even if the product is not something any particular company makes)?  Does this fit as an "incident" although there is no even or particular time involved?
+I pose this partly because it would help to know, and partly as an example of the sort of issue to be considered in planning a structure for coverage of medical devices on the wiki.  Thanks.  [[User:Drakeula|Drakeula]] ([[User talk:Drakeula|talk]])