Something we can do?!

Sorry to sound like a broken record/cracked CD, but reading swimmer’s tales of woe and reports on posters and conversations in the clinic, and others giving up on dietician meetings, I end up screaming again that we must do something. I can’t get any sense out of people about what DCUK is prepared to do or endorse, so it really seems to be down to us. How about some Direct Action?
What I would suggest is that everyone who thinks that the daisy advice to newly diagnosed diabetics is right and important prints off an armful of copies, and the next time that we have an appointment at a clinic, take a batch and politely start passing them round the diabetic patients, inviting them to read it. This may of course annoy clinic staff and dieticians, they might even want to start forbidding people from doing any such thing, but even the act of banning such a thing means that they are having to acknowledge that there are other voices and other approaches out there, and that might be a first step towards at least initiating some sort of conversation/dialogue. There are clearly some clinics and HCPs who would agree with the contents anyway. Is it worth a try? Better this than either being forced to meekly sit through bad and insulting ‘advice’, or boycotting dieticians altogether...