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Message: <blockquote data-quote="foto2021" data-source="post: 2752927" data-attributes="member: 442007">I’m sorry you feel diabetic nurses are giving you a hard time. Like you, I have had several. I think probably 7 or 8 since I was first diagnosed 25 years ago.Doctors and nurses receive very different training. Doctors’ training is more science-based, nurses get much more experience-based tuition, better suited to the very different job they do. Over the years I have found diabetes nurses can be particularly dogmatic and assertive. It can come across as harshness, but they have specific experience that doctors generally don’t.If you are the kind of person who doesn’t take to that approach, it can be challenging. I note you say you are an activist. Doctors and nurses can feel threatened by people who ‘know too much’. I have had that problem many times, so I use appointments with medical professionals as an opportunity to listen to their opinions and then draw any conclusions afterwards. This makes the experience less stressful than using an approach that might include an element of confrontation.Wishing you all the best for the future.</blockquote>

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