Sadly this attitude from DN's is far too common. It is NOT malpractice, but it should be!
You could almost report her for threatening you. but please stay calm.Not yet, the DN said if there was an issue then I would hear soon if not, then I would get a letter in 2 - 3 weeks
My understanding is that HBA1Cs are done every 3 months. That is the time interval that they measure.I cannot believe that they would just depend on an annual blood test when it is such a progressive disease.
Annually... especially once you have achieved the impossible and "reversed the chronic, progressive condition" makes sense eh?My understanding is that HBA1Cs are done every 3 months. That is the time interval that they measure.
How often do other T2Ds have their HBA1Cs done ?? Any takers ??
My understanding is that HBA1Cs are done every 3 months. That is the time interval that they measure.
How often do other T2Ds have their HBA1Cs done ?? Any takers ??
I'm T1 an have my hba1c's once a year, as per my request. I suppose they would let me have it twice or maybe 3 times a year if I wanted. When they still thought I was T2 I had them once or twice a year.My understanding is that HBA1Cs are done every 3 months. That is the time interval that they measure.
How often do other T2Ds have their HBA1Cs done ?? Any takers ??
I used to be every three months for a hba1c and full cholesterol panel, digoxin levels etc. It got to be a pita fasting so I go just for the digoxin levels and lft every three months/.My understanding is that HBA1Cs are done every 3 months. That is the time interval that they measure.
How often do other T2Ds have their HBA1Cs done ?? Any takers ??
Does that come under Medicare or do you have to pay?I used to be every three months for a hba1c and full cholesterol panel, digoxin levels etc. It got to be a pita fasting so I go just for the digoxin levels and lft every three months/.
My GP is happy with me doing the rest six monthly now that I have got them down to 5.3% or 34 mmol/mol.
If my GP ticks the blood test request form "Bulk Bill" box, then I do not have to pay the pathology shop. If he did not tick the box I have to pay up front before the tests get done.Does that come under Medicare or do you have to pay?
My understanding is that HBA1Cs are done every 3 months. That is the time interval that they measure.
How often do other T2Ds have their HBA1Cs done ?? Any takers ??
I waited till I had a couple of hba1c tests that came back into the 30's, before I talked to my GP.so if one's HBA1C remains above a certain level then 3 monthly tests continue
hahaha...No, *** is alive and well, four from the end bottom row. :***:
Hi @jjraak, Sorry to hear how things went!!
In Oz, years ago we had a subject as part of the medical school curriculum called "Breaking Bad News" which medical students had to read and research and do role play practices for assessment and exams. Sounds like either not all medical schools do this, or it has been pushed out by other 'more deserving ' topics !!!
Hi @DCUKMod, Point taken. Yes, there will be some better communicators than others, some more mature, some less so.With respect, I think your assessment that, ".... Sounds like either not all medical schools do this, or it has been pushed out by other 'more deserving ' topics !!!...." is somewhat simplistic. Let's face it, all medics are taught the importance of informed consent, explanation of potential side effects and so on, but we'd be somewhat naive, in my view, not to concede some are better than others. Breaking bad news is a variant on that.
Attending lectures, seminars, tutorials and all that is all very well, but the in the wild, reality deals up different mixes every time.
I'd violently agree it is a highly, highly important topic, but some will be better than others, and for some it will be purgatory.
I am not defending the individual being cited here, because I didn't hear or see what was said, but stating the reality of the matter. Whatever he said, and however he said it, he gauged it wrongly on the day.
Without doubt, most of us on here have ebbs on the receiving end of "that could have gone a lot better" situations with medics in our time. They're no different to other human beings.
Good point @DCUKMod ..and I'm sympathetic to the fact.
Yet, how many I wonder, walk away stunned or in this case, for the O/P...left feeling berated, because sometimes we dare not correct them, but simply endure poor, and in some cases, crass behaviour.
Pretty sure we have all had at least one experience of too much power going to a receptionists head, for instance.
I'd like to think, as you put it..it is just a poorer skill set, then some others.
I think we do us ALL a disservice by just accepting such an unsympathetic style in my book.
But your point remains, we are human, and few of us are perfect.
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