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Another awful one - Emmerdale this time - ITV

mashedupmatt

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Dreadful IMO (hope ti plays ok - had to upload to Youtube)
 
Stigmatising Diabetes seemingly is a main concern for the programme rather than farming! There was another comment later too apparently (OH watches it, I don't - but made sure I rewinded it to record and post) - makes my blood boil
 
mashedupmatt said:
Stigmatising Diabetes seemingly is a main concern for the programme rather than farming! There was another comment later too apparently (OH watches it, I don't - but made sure I rewinded it to record and post) - makes my blood boil
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The script is a bit random. The guy asks if it’s for a midnight feast? Then the child says he’s going to school. Wibbly wobbly timey whimey stuff. More laughable realy.
 
These kind of flippant comments (supposed to be a joke) are not helpful at all - he says after the kid says he's going to school "What are you learning about, Diabetes?" Suggesting that all the sugary snacks etc. he has picked up are a cause, which is completely wrong
 
mashedupmatt said:
These kind of flippant comments (supposed to be a joke) are not helpful at all - he says after the kid says he's going to school "What are you learning about, Diabetes?" Suggesting that all the sugary snacks etc. he has picked up are a cause, which is completely wrong
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To be quite frank. From what I’ve seen? The character sounds a bit like an Ahole. The dialogue seems awkward too. Is the relationship meant to be like this with the kid? In context is the adult “mum’s boyfriend” a “teacher at Hogwarts?” Or a “probation officer?”
 
mashedupmatt said:
These kind of flippant comments (supposed to be a joke) are not helpful at all - he says after the kid says he's going to school "What are you learning about, Diabetes?" Suggesting that all the sugary snacks etc. he has picked up are a cause, which is completely wrong
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They’re particularly upsetting (and trivialising) for children and young people to hear. It reminded me of this news story:

www.bbc.co.uk

Diabetes is no laughing matter, say young sufferers

Young women with type 1 diabetes talk about the misunderstanding around the disease.
www.bbc.co.uk

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I don’t watch Emmerdale @mashedupmatt but if you know the TV company who show/make it, you can make a complaint. I also wonder whether Diabetes U.K. would make a statement too. I thought fighting stigma was one of their campaigns. This would be a good educational opportunity. I’ll tag @everydayupsanddowns in case he knows anything re making statements.
 
Thanks for flagging @mashedupmatt

I’ve sent this on to DUK so that they are aware of it in case there is any wider reaction, or they wish to proactively issue a statement around it.
 
Even on medical dramas like Casualty they get things badly wrong, thus it will always be I'm afraid.
 
nonethewiser said:
Even on medical dramas like Casualty they get things badly wrong, thus it will always be I'm afraid.
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My heart used to sink whenever a character with Type 1 appeared on Casualty. I just knew they were going to have a hypo and be a victim rather than be the person who saves the day. In lots of programmes Type 1s only exist to provide a bit of drama.
 
Is anyone watching “The Au Pair” on Channel 5? I’m only 2 episodes in, and it’s not bad so far, although these things have a tendency to get more crazy towards the end, so we’ll see. It’s one of those “happy family decide to get a home help, who it turns out has been stalking them and waiting to wreak revenge for long ago injustices which the family are completely unaware of” etc. There is a diabetic character, one grandfather who lives with the family and the parents have to do his injections for him because he has a tendency to forget. They have a fridge full of what look like actual Novorapid penfills (no sign of a pen, but they haven’t shown him having an insulin injection yet, so OK), one character was seen holding what looked like an actual glucagon kit orange box, and when the diabetic character was found unconscious on the floor, they were shown holding a blood test kit with strip inserted reading LO, injection was then fetched which looked like a standard plastic syringe and no mention was made of what the injection was of (i.e. not implied that it must be insulin) so so far so good. He woke up rather quickly and they did not give him any food, but the scene cut then so oh well! Whilst the diabetes was undoubtedly only added for extra drama, so far they are doing a pretty good job of depicting it.

But while the glucagon is being administered, the following conversation occurs. “How much insulin have you been giving him?” “Just the usual” “You didn’t give the 500 by mistake?” “No, just 10 units of U100”
Kudos to them for knowing all the correct terms, BUT is it realistic that the same person would have both U100 AND U500? I thought people were either massively insulin resistant and needed loads of the stuff, hence more concentrated, or they weren’t. Please do correct me if I’m wrong there!

Au pair was later seen with insulin penfills swapping the labels; how easily this could be done without it being obvious that they had been tampered with, I have no idea !
 
Sally71 said:
Au pair was later seen with insulin penfills swapping the labels; how easily this could be done without it being obvious that they had been tampered with, I have no idea !
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Quite easy, in fact, I just tried! I happen to have just swapped cartridges, so I tried peeling the plastic label off the old cartridge, and once you’d got your fingernail under the edge, the whole thing just peeled off in one, then I stuck it back on again, and apart from having to be careful of air bubbles, it wasn’t any different from putting sticky backed plastic round something, so it would be easy to replace it with one that you'd peeled off a different one.
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Apologies if I’ve just sowed the seeds to any would be murderer, but as it's already been seen on TV…
 
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