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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grant_Vicat" data-source="post: 2192268" data-attributes="member: 388932">This occured in the late 90's and exactly echoes your thoughts:A short while before, I had had a totally different reaction from a junior doctor at King's.“Why are you on such an old fashioned system?”“Because it works.”“Don't you realise that we do things differently nowadays? Our patients inject four times a day allowing them to eat what they like when they like.”“That is what DAFNE (Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating, devised by Professor Stephanie Amiel at King's College Hospital) is about, and in 1998 Stephanie Amiel wrote me a very sympathetic letter, understanding my reasons for not wishing to start DAFNE.”“What were they?”“Chiefly that at the age of 41, I am trying not to put on weight, and being on the Lawrence Line Weight diet has kept me in trim up to the present day.”“But that is not how we do things now.”“Listen, so far you have not given me any concrete reason for switching, other than fashion.”The way he addressed me irritated me so much that when I got home I wrote a long complaint to Peter Watkins. He sent a charming letter back, assuring me that he had spoken to the junior doctor. On the next visit I was seen by Peter who told me that the young man was suitably contrite. Suddenly I felt pity for him. Peter said “When our patients are upset by the way they are received, we have to deal with it appropriately.” As I left the clinic via W.H. Smith, who should be coming the other direction? He just said “Hi.” I hope he has progressed into a first class diabetologist now.Have a healthy 2020!Grant</blockquote>

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