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Diabetes and Criminal Responsibility.

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quote: In any case, diabetics have a duty to test their blood glucose before driving, and periodically during a long journey


So if you are refused or rationed test strips, as most diabetics now are, would this absolve you of any guilt?
 
the_anticarb said:
quote: In any case, diabetics have a duty to test their blood glucose before driving, and periodically during a long journey


So if you are refused or rationed test strips, as most diabetics now are, would this absolve you of any guilt?
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Certainly not, test strips are easily obtained from a chemist or medical supplier without prescription. How much you have to pay however is a separate issue.
 
This paragraph shows an ideal situation, which is often far from reality:

>>Diabetics are given extensive education about how to manage their condition; typically they have one to five days of education when they start insulin which is the treatment most likely to cause hypoglycaemia. They will be told the importance of eating after administering insulin or concurrently in the case of administration of synthetic short-acting insulins or oral diabetic treatments, and to avoid alcohol, which are both factors that will increase the likelihood of hypoglycaemia. They will be told about the warning signs of hypoglycaemia – pallor, sweatiness, feeling of anxiety, tremor, hunger – that precede the effects on the brain which include behavioural changes, confusion, fatigue, seizure, and loss of consciousness. <<

I wonder if a diabetic who didn't receive such education, has any legal recourse if he/she has a hypo which gets them into trouble?
Hana
 
Does anyone on insulin not get that information? The quality of treatment I got improved massively after they realised it was type 1 not type 2. I think is says most of that paragraph you quoted Hana on the information leaflet that comes with the insulin, eg when to inject and hypo symptoms, so everyone who is on insulin will have read it.
 
I was diagnosed type2 in 2008.
Straight on insulin , Guidance on how to inject guidance on hypos and how to tell if too low -ZILCH!!
all I learned on this was via self study/active questioning.Info from HCPs has always come as a confirmation of what I have already found out.In many cases info from my nephrologist preceded that from GP or diabetologist :shock:
 
Quite right Fergus....the information MAY be given to some but judging by the questions asked on this particular Forum many must either NOT be given the information or just don't bother to read it......

I too got nearly ALL my information from my own research and GOOD HCP's who make sure that the information is given, few and far between it seems ! :roll:
 
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