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[emoji19]should we ignore the stuff some medics say?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alexandra100" data-source="post: 2284677" data-attributes="member: 429870"><p>I'll add, think very hard before taking the advice of someone who DOES have diabetes, especially, yes ESPECIALLY if they are a health professional!!!! I recently had a routine telephone checkup with a representative of a vascular surgery dept. He turned out to be a retired cardiology specialist. I imagine he had been drafted in to help catch up on a backlog of patients due to Covid. He took it on himself to lecture me on my (admittedly poor) cholesterol results and is writing to my GP to insist that I should be prescribed a statin. He dismissed my concern that a statin might raise my bg, considering that even if it did it was of no consequence. I understood his stance when, in reply to my mentioning my low carb diet, he objected, "Life is for living" and revealed that he himself is a diabetic. Not a well-controlled one, or I miss my guess.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alexandra100, post: 2284677, member: 429870"] I'll add, think very hard before taking the advice of someone who DOES have diabetes, especially, yes ESPECIALLY if they are a health professional!!!! I recently had a routine telephone checkup with a representative of a vascular surgery dept. He turned out to be a retired cardiology specialist. I imagine he had been drafted in to help catch up on a backlog of patients due to Covid. He took it on himself to lecture me on my (admittedly poor) cholesterol results and is writing to my GP to insist that I should be prescribed a statin. He dismissed my concern that a statin might raise my bg, considering that even if it did it was of no consequence. I understood his stance when, in reply to my mentioning my low carb diet, he objected, "Life is for living" and revealed that he himself is a diabetic. Not a well-controlled one, or I miss my guess. [/QUOTE]
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