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<blockquote data-quote="primmers" data-source="post: 176321" data-attributes="member: 31913"><p><strong>Re: Diagnosed "Borderline" Type 2, and now.. er.. just "Type</strong></p><p></p><p>Paul, I must have clumsily worded my post if I left you with the impression that I felt folk who choose not to test are weak, in my defence I was posting late at night.</p><p></p><p>I work in an area of the NHS, maternity, where there is a lot of patient choice. The range of approaches to delivery is wide, from all natural, no lighting, in a pool of warm water through to I'd like an epidural and elective section and I'd like it now please. I have never believed that it was for me to tell women that what they want is wrong or if they want one thing over another they are weak or strong but rather to give them enough information to make choices that are most likely to get them what they want.</p><p></p><p>Anyone who works with patients will tell you that there are some who want to engage with processes and some who are very, very passive and prefer to have life happen to them. That is who the person is and that is not for others to trample on. There are some areas of my life (mostly financial) where I tend to passively go with the flow because I find the whole **** business so frightening. My more clued up friends despair of my what will be will be approach but the alternative fills me with horror. I am fully aware that there might be different outcomes for me from this approach but it's what I am currently comfortable with.</p><p></p><p>I have some knowledge of health matters so am not so scared of the subject, and some experience that patients who engage often improve their own health outcomes. Both these factors enable and inform my approach to my diabetes. Folk who choose not to engage are not in my eyes weak, they are folk who have a different set of emotional and psychological needs and find they are satisfied by a different approach.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, you have to decide for you what meets your needs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="primmers, post: 176321, member: 31913"] [b]Re: Diagnosed "Borderline" Type 2, and now.. er.. just "Type[/b] Paul, I must have clumsily worded my post if I left you with the impression that I felt folk who choose not to test are weak, in my defence I was posting late at night. I work in an area of the NHS, maternity, where there is a lot of patient choice. The range of approaches to delivery is wide, from all natural, no lighting, in a pool of warm water through to I'd like an epidural and elective section and I'd like it now please. I have never believed that it was for me to tell women that what they want is wrong or if they want one thing over another they are weak or strong but rather to give them enough information to make choices that are most likely to get them what they want. Anyone who works with patients will tell you that there are some who want to engage with processes and some who are very, very passive and prefer to have life happen to them. That is who the person is and that is not for others to trample on. There are some areas of my life (mostly financial) where I tend to passively go with the flow because I find the whole **** business so frightening. My more clued up friends despair of my what will be will be approach but the alternative fills me with horror. I am fully aware that there might be different outcomes for me from this approach but it's what I am currently comfortable with. I have some knowledge of health matters so am not so scared of the subject, and some experience that patients who engage often improve their own health outcomes. Both these factors enable and inform my approach to my diabetes. Folk who choose not to engage are not in my eyes weak, they are folk who have a different set of emotional and psychological needs and find they are satisfied by a different approach. Anyway, you have to decide for you what meets your needs. [/QUOTE]
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