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- Type of diabetes
- Don't have diabetes
- Treatment type
- I do not have diabetes
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I managed to get a photocopy of my diagnosis in July 1959, from my village surgery. I truthfully told them I was writing a book for which this was a significant piece of information. I think I was lucky to talk (in person) to a sympathetic receptionist who rang me within the working day to say I could collect it. I wonder if you could try something similar, even though it shouldn't have to be this way? I hope you get somewhere - people underestimate quite how important these documents are to the patient. Within the relatively recent times when we have been entitled to see our notes, I had turned up to outpatients and had all the preliminaries done, was handed my notes, and told to "wait over there." Of course I read my notes avidly and was halted abruptly by a passing nurse who said "You shouldn't be reading those."
"Nowadays I am entitled to, by law!"