Creating happiness in the diabetes care clinic

Happiness is an essential part of human health. The purpose of health care, including diabetes care, is to achieve happiness, or euthymia. Happiness, can also be viewed as a means to achieving good health, as well as a technique to overcome challenges, encourage team work and ensure better adherence to therapy. This opinion piece shares simple ways of achieving happiness in the diabetes care clinic. It lists best practices related to environment communication style, communication content, and inter-consultation contact. If integrated into daily practice, these will help create a happy health care ecosystem, which in turn will enhance patient satisfaction.