How Health Professionals Speak To People With Diabetes

Also a thread here:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/language-matters.150664/

"People who are ashamed of a condition will find it much harder to engage and manage that condition proactively.”
Amen.
One doc asked me if I hadn't been pigging myself, and a nurse asked me why I'd gained the 35kgs I'd lost previously in a rather condescending manner. I told her that if I knew that I'd be very rich.

Please note all the links mentioning low carb down the side. Perhaps the medical community is finally being pointed in a direction that will work for more type 2 people. It is also interesting the link with language. It was the language used by my DN that really got my back up so that I was determined to 'show her' that I could do something about borderline diabetes without drugs. Perhaps if she had been more empathetic I would have just fallen in line and taken the pills and carried on eating the Eatwell plate!

It is the medics who make people feel shame. And the TV medics and media reporting of medics which also induce shame.

You dont get a cold and get shamed. Their whole language, for a decade, has been one of blame and shame. Its disgusting and unfair.