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This takes the biscuit.

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I heard this on the BBC news this morning - absolutely appalling!! I am disgusted :(
 
Reacted badly to this myself when I saw it on breakfast news at about 630,soon as Susanne Reid mentioned diabetes I knew it would be some jumped up mark saying its all brought Upon ourselves we must be punished in some way grr. Mad mad !!
 
Obviously not a well educated Dr if he thinks type 2 is always life style 🙄
Glad he aint my GP that's for sure. ( I'm assuming he is a medical Dr)
 
Worst thing about it is that he's a GP as well - no wonder diabetes costs the NHS so much when you get idiots like him totally failing to grasp the disease and no doubt sneeringly thinking 'you brought it on yourself, why should I help you?' should he ever have to deal with someone with diabetes. 😡
 
It's quite unbelievable. Our position is, obviously, that no one with diabetes (regardless of type) should have to pay for their prescriptions.

They're talking about it on BBC Radio 5 Live at the moment. Barbara Young was on too.
 
Not a problem, i'll buy my future prescriptions (those that i can afford each month). So i need inhalers every month without fail. The other stuff (insulin, blood pressure meds etc) i'll just get as and when i can afford it. Am i paying for my own amputations does anyone know? :D:D
 
I think one of the reasons why the 'lifestyle' scare doesn't work is that, although it is clearly a risk factor, most people who have a poor diet and lifestyle don't develop diabetes, so most people don't believe it will ever happen to them. If nearly half the population is overweight or obese and only (!) around 8% develop diabetes then the scare tactics don't work. If you subtract the large proportion of people who don't lead poor lifestyles or have poor diets who develop diabetes, the proportion is even lower. I'm getting so sick of diabetes being painted as a 'lifestyle choice' as though that is the one and only reason you develop it. What about people who are overweight for other reasons, like needing steroids or as a consequence of other medications?

The best way for the NHS to save money where diabetes is concerned is to start educating and treating patients properly instead of blaming them, so that the 80% cost of complications can be significantly reduced. Grr!!!
 
If you wish to contact said GP / MP / (Muppet) to voice your concerns, details below:

phillip@phillip-lee.com

0207 2191270
07515419080 (PA)

Dr Phillip Lee MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

I feel a very polite, but perhaps slightly sarcastic email coming on......
 
My father has type 2 diabetes and until recently was as fit as anything yet he has been type 2 for a number of years. My uncle had it and was very fit too, he grew all of his own fruit and vege.

When I developed it my mother failed to see the genetic connection and blamed my diet, lack of exercise, me personally.

Looking at the population on general, more education is needed all round and especially of the professionals looking after us...
 
Views like this make me fume. How do I make a complaint?!
 
I'm utterly fed up with these know-it-alls who think they know evrything about Diabetes. I've been through Diabetic education and I've been told that it's not necessarily lifestyle choice. There are other causes such as stress. But in my case, it's hereditary. My father and grandmother were both Diabetics.
 
I wont mind paying for my medication if I don't have to pay income tax and national insurance contributions. I pay roughly ?500 a week so would be much better off.

Like everyone else I am sick to the back teeth of these eejits who are meant to be representing people talking through their earholes.

Perhaps we could all lead healthier lifestyles if we could claim expenses for the right food through the government..... Problem solved. Simples 🙂
 
Glad they are not my GP.

As always, the comments are something to either laugh or despair about!!
 
Would anyone like to point out the word Hyperinsulinemia to the person (can't say gentleman can I?) in the first place? and I have a good friend who has been called lanky since her schooldays being tall and thin all her life yet she's had T2 for a number of years now.

So do I take it she could still have free scrips?

Not a means test - a waist measurement test now?

Everbody pregnant would fail that automatically, so if they got GD they'd have to pay of course.

Yup that's ridiculous I know.

Just replying in the same vein as the Rt Dis-Hon Dr Idiot's comments.
 
cherrypie said:
If you really want to shout at him watch this video. Baby boomers, stoic oldies, expectations from the NHS.

I am so thin you could X Ray me by holding me up to the light and yet I have high BP and Type2. and they were not caused by lifestyle choices.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ack-as-patients-take-more-responsibility.html

I wonder if he has read this lately?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/hippocratic-oath-today.html
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FUMING!!!!!!! 😡 For someone in such a position of power and responsibility he makes such a fool of himself in that little speech. Ignorant, sweeping statements based on myth and conjecture, ill-conceived and unimaginative drivel of the highest order (at least he gets an A* for that particular accomplishment!). 'I'm alright Jack', pious, preaching, ivory tower twaddle at its pinnacle! 😡

Particularly hated the "" quotes gesture about the free prescriptions. I paid my NI and taxes for 30 years before I was diagnosed, as no doubt so have most of the people now benefiting from the NHS. And that business about people of the 'older' generation being more 'stoic' etc. - is he suggesting that people should just grin and bear it if they are in pain or enduring suffering? I wouldn't wish diabetes on anyone, but I wonder if he checked his family history before he decided to spout this nonsense, just to see if he might be at risk?
 
I don't know what planet this bloke thinks he's on but he's talking out his ****.
I for one used to play so much sport when I was younger that I never put any weight on until I was 24 and 9 stone for a guy of 6ft 1in made me look like a stick insect!
Also as I've had GI problems since I was a teenager I've had to be very careful in what I eat due to various food intolerences etc. I am not overweight and take exception to the presumption that everyone who is a type 2 diabetic is branded with 'it must be your own fault because you eat all the wrong food, never exercise and are obese'. It's about time people who make sweeping statements like this got their facts straight before condeming everyone. This guy should know better being a GP as well.
 
PhilT said:
...This guy should know better being a GP as well.
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I actually think that is the worst thing of all - you expect MPs to come out with stupid, ill-informed statements, but for a practising GP to say something like this means he does not understand diabetes at all. He probably thought he was being clever by specifically stating Type 2, but that just reinforces the fact that he clearly believes all Type 2 is self-inflicted and could be 100% avoided. :(
 
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