How Health Professionals Speak To People With Diabetes

[hh1]

Interested to see that the NHS has produced a booklet for health professionals on how to communicate better with people with diabetes - see http://diabetestimes.co.uk/nhs-england-issues-language-and-diabetes-guidance/ where there's a link to the (brief) booklet. Worth having to hand with some of the HCPs some of us have encountered in the past!

 

[Diakat]

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

 

[briped]

"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.

 

[Phoenix55]

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!

 

[lucylocket61]

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.