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<blockquote data-quote="Pickwick" data-source="post: 344388" data-attributes="member: 6971"><p>The most annoying thing about T2 ever said to me was by my own GP who called it - and still calls it - "only" Type 2 diabetes. I often jokingly tell friends I'm very special as I have that special variant of T2 called "only T2." It soon became clear I'd probably been diabetic for several years - years in which I'd seen my GP regularly about other, serious, conditions. He only diagnosed diabetes after I banged on his desk and demanded he check specifically for it. Subsequently I heard more misinformation from my GP and his diabetic practice nurse than from any other source.</p><p></p><p>Someone here commented on the level of diabetic training among nursing staff - in my own experience I can testify it seems to be zero or worse (the worse being actual misinformation based on the NHS party line.) A short stay in my local general hospital confirmed this - the wholesale ignorance wasn't quite as disgraceful as the authoritarian, often angry, certainty with which it was offered. As in another thread on this forum, I often had to fight for my metformin and even then await their convenience. I shudder to imagine the result had I needed insulin.</p><p> </p><p>These days as long as I get my metfartin, etc, free (I'm retired and disabled) I try to stay up to date via websites like this, and stay as far away from medics as I can for as long as I can. As for my local general hospital - it will take a sheet over my face before I return to an institution in which I'd decline to kennel my dog.</p><p></p><p>The American politician Will Rogers used to say "It's not what we don't know that causes trouble. It's what we DO know that ain't so!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pickwick, post: 344388, member: 6971"] The most annoying thing about T2 ever said to me was by my own GP who called it - and still calls it - "only" Type 2 diabetes. I often jokingly tell friends I'm very special as I have that special variant of T2 called "only T2." It soon became clear I'd probably been diabetic for several years - years in which I'd seen my GP regularly about other, serious, conditions. He only diagnosed diabetes after I banged on his desk and demanded he check specifically for it. Subsequently I heard more misinformation from my GP and his diabetic practice nurse than from any other source. Someone here commented on the level of diabetic training among nursing staff - in my own experience I can testify it seems to be zero or worse (the worse being actual misinformation based on the NHS party line.) A short stay in my local general hospital confirmed this - the wholesale ignorance wasn't quite as disgraceful as the authoritarian, often angry, certainty with which it was offered. As in another thread on this forum, I often had to fight for my metformin and even then await their convenience. I shudder to imagine the result had I needed insulin. These days as long as I get my metfartin, etc, free (I'm retired and disabled) I try to stay up to date via websites like this, and stay as far away from medics as I can for as long as I can. As for my local general hospital - it will take a sheet over my face before I return to an institution in which I'd decline to kennel my dog. The American politician Will Rogers used to say "It's not what we don't know that causes trouble. It's what we DO know that ain't so!" [/QUOTE]
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