OBSERVATIONS Bent Needles: Another Problem in

A chieving and maintaining tight gly-cemic control has been the aim ofmodern diabetologists in the bid to prevent long-term complications of dia-betes. In spite of advancement in insulin therapy and devices for its administration (syringes, pens, and needles) making in-sulin more acceptable to patients, there still remain a few setbacks to treatment efficacy. We report two cases of bent nee-dles as a major contributor to poor glyce-mic control in patients on insulin therapy (1,2). B.S., a 51-year-old male truck driver with type 2 diabetes, was on oral hypo-glycemics for 13 years; as with many type 2 diabetics, insulin therapy was initiate