Do your healthcare professionals treat you as a person who has diabetes or do they treat you as a walking disease?
This question came to mind after I read about the '#hellomynameis' campaign to get healthcare professionals to introduce themselves before giving treatment. The #hellomynameis came from Kate Granger who has terminal cancer but it made me curious to find out whether any of you have been treated more like a disease than person with a condition?
From my own experience, as a child, I remember being pointed to by a nurse and referred to as "the diabetic". Not the worst thing that can ever happen but enough for me never to have forgotten that moment of depersonalisation.
Have any of you had any similar/worse examples that struck you and how did it make it you feel?
Benedict
This question came to mind after I read about the '#hellomynameis' campaign to get healthcare professionals to introduce themselves before giving treatment. The #hellomynameis came from Kate Granger who has terminal cancer but it made me curious to find out whether any of you have been treated more like a disease than person with a condition?
From my own experience, as a child, I remember being pointed to by a nurse and referred to as "the diabetic". Not the worst thing that can ever happen but enough for me never to have forgotten that moment of depersonalisation.
Have any of you had any similar/worse examples that struck you and how did it make it you feel?
Benedict