ally5555, it's great that you aren't an arrogant HCP. As I understand it though, this thread is about patients feeding back HOW they got those good results. Eg if a patient is not following standard medical advice, but is achieving excellent outcomes, then that feedback needs to spread in the medical community and doctors' advice should be adapted to take account of what the patients have found out for themselves.ally5555 said:As a HCP perhaps I can give a perspective from the other side!
Yes most of us do feel pleased when pts get good results but have to be very professional about it. As far as feeding results back well in way that happens - most surgeries have computerised systems so it records HBA levels, wt etc so if you want to look at results you can pull off all pts with a recorded wt or cholesterol etc. This data is fed into government stats . It is probably true that there are still some arrogant HCP but not so many but it works both ways - there are some equally arrogant pts! In general the people I work with are hard working and approachable - but then the Welsh are a chatty bunch!
Usually, though, patients might suggest to their GP that they have successfully tried a particular treatment regime, a good GP will be pleased like you.... but the info is still not fed back into research or to medical textbook writers or policy makers. The good blood test result is fed back into government stats, but the process that enabled the patient to get that result is not.
As far as I'm aware there is no easy standard way for HCPs to feed this kind of data back from the patient, and as others have said, helping with research is only useful if the researchers are already asking the right questions in the first place.
The James Lind Alliance works to try and get particular questions on the big research agendas. They've just done a research priority setting exercise with Type 1s (I took part, it was v interesting). It might be worth writing to them to ask when/if they plan to do the same for Type 2s? http://www.lindalliance.org/