INS and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Although self‐monitoring of blood glucose is now widely accepted as part of the management of people with type 2 diabetes,3 Polonsky et al4 showed that lack of understanding and limited skills to apply self‐monitoring data to aid insulin dose adjustment, avoidance of thinking about BG values and diabetes, and a sense of pointlessness of self‐monitoring were associated with infrequent self‐monitoring and limited use of self‐monitoring data for insulin dose adjustments.