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Overview Diabetes is a complex metabolic disorder with a high prevalence of macrovascular and microvascular complications. Patients’ knowledge and comprehension of the condition are often inadequate, which may cause them to identify complications more slowly than they should. Most diabetic patients are unaware that uncontrolled diabetes may lead to severe complications such as heart attack/foot ulcers and renal problems. Effective communication between doctors and patients on diabetic treatment is critical to glycemic management. It encourages patients to follow-up with their medications regularly and helps glycemic control through dietary modifications. Social and psychological difficulties are disproportionately prevalent among diabetic patients. As a first step in creating programmatic interventions for diabetes, it is essential to recognize and comprehend the challenges physicians face. From the physician’s perspective, the Type 2 diabetes epidemic presents many potential patient-related challenges regarding glycemic control. Such challenges include implementing dietary interventions in healthcare settings, limited resources, such as short consultation times, ineffective communication, language barriers, irregular followups and mismatches in patients’ or their caretakers’ previous medical and medication histories [1].