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<blockquote data-quote="ChrissiStar" data-source="post: 2104624" data-attributes="member: 511565"><p>It's terrifying isn't it? I had a cracker with a new GP a few months back, went with problems with my foot - nothing to do with my diabetes (corns between my toes and an unhappy tattoo on the top of my foot due to me being allergic to red tattoo ink), he immediately assumed neuropathy, wouldn't listen to me about the red ink, so I left with a referral to podiatry, a leaflet on foot care and thought that was it. Later that day he called me as he had looked through my medical history and it had to be neuropathy, I ended up hanging up on him as I'd had my fill of him by this point. Then came the super patronising letter a week later 'I was impressed by your medical knowledge of your condition yadda yadda' well, I have only been living with it for 25 years, probably longer than you have been walking the earth! I read said letter, laughed and filed it under 'B' for bin as funnily enough my foot had settled right down again and I had seen a chiropodist to have the corns dealt with. THEN the absolute cracker of a letter appeared about another week later - an invite to a Type 2 group consultation! Excellent, but I have been Type 1 for 25 years...Straight out of med school, all the gear and no idea sprung to mind. I was tempted to attend said clinic just to play Devil's advocate but was called the day before to be told it had been cancelled.</p><p></p><p>Healthcare professionals really shouldn't assume things, it's people's lives they are playing with. Can't remember who mentioned it above, but a nurse cancelling testing strips? I would go wild!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChrissiStar, post: 2104624, member: 511565"] It's terrifying isn't it? I had a cracker with a new GP a few months back, went with problems with my foot - nothing to do with my diabetes (corns between my toes and an unhappy tattoo on the top of my foot due to me being allergic to red tattoo ink), he immediately assumed neuropathy, wouldn't listen to me about the red ink, so I left with a referral to podiatry, a leaflet on foot care and thought that was it. Later that day he called me as he had looked through my medical history and it had to be neuropathy, I ended up hanging up on him as I'd had my fill of him by this point. Then came the super patronising letter a week later 'I was impressed by your medical knowledge of your condition yadda yadda' well, I have only been living with it for 25 years, probably longer than you have been walking the earth! I read said letter, laughed and filed it under 'B' for bin as funnily enough my foot had settled right down again and I had seen a chiropodist to have the corns dealt with. THEN the absolute cracker of a letter appeared about another week later - an invite to a Type 2 group consultation! Excellent, but I have been Type 1 for 25 years...Straight out of med school, all the gear and no idea sprung to mind. I was tempted to attend said clinic just to play Devil's advocate but was called the day before to be told it had been cancelled. Healthcare professionals really shouldn't assume things, it's people's lives they are playing with. Can't remember who mentioned it above, but a nurse cancelling testing strips? I would go wild! [/QUOTE]
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