Today he chooses to lead a healthy life and control his diabetes. He takes an oral diabetes medication, metformin. JR eats a good, healthy diet and has exercise habits such as taking walks with his dog. JR takes seven medications a day, three for his heart, one for high blood pressure, one for cholesterol, one for diabetes and another to prevent blood clots. After making sure there was no drug interaction between any of these medications, I informed my patient that his medication cannot cure diabetes and hypertension but controls