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Diabetic mother-of-two is kicked out of McDonald's for injecting herself with insulin

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in my area a lot of people 'do drugs' so everyone injecting gets tarred with the same brush which is sad
 
I've decided I'm not going for my occasional treat there anymore
 
Yes, but junkies don't have injection pens! Or do they? None of the ones I worked with did, they all used old style syringes, which look very different as I'm sure you all know. Which makes the staff in that McD's idiots and incredibly ignorant. I hope they are made to do some sensitivity training.

I've never had any trouble in the local branch possibly because the manager has a diabetic relative and staff are pretty understanding. And also, because visits to that emporium are extremely rare. 😉
 
Just re-read the article and they have corrected the glaring errors thank goodness!

If anyone asked my son to leave a restaurant because he injected himself, he would be most upset. If I was with him though, it would be the restaurant management who would be upset!!!!
 
AlisonM said:
Yes, but junkies don't have injection pens! Or do they? None of the ones I worked with did, they all used old style syringes, which look very different as I'm sure you all know. Which makes the staff in that McD's idiots and incredibly ignorant. I hope they are made to do some sensitivity training.
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Well they certainly don't have pens with "novo nordisk" (or any other pharma company's name) on it ! 😉

Guess it all boils down to ignorance :(.... They see people injecting and assume you're a junkie !
 
Are they not laying themselves open to a deformation lawsuit? At the very least I would tell the staff if you think I'm a junkie call the police.
 
Vicsetter said:
Are they not laying themselves open to a deformation lawsuit? At the very least I would tell the staff if you think I'm a junkie call the police.
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Well, they do have a twisted sense of reality, I suppose.
 
Redkite said:
Just re-read the article and they have corrected the glaring errors thank goodness!

If anyone asked my son to leave a restaurant because he injected himself, he would be most upset. If I was with him though, it would be the restaurant management who would be upset!!!!
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I'd like to know why they have not allowed the comments myself and others have submitted - there are still only the three comments that were there at 6am, yet I know of several people on FB who submitted comments.

It's good that they have highlighted the ignorance of some elements of the general public towards insulin injections, but to get everything so completely wrong is extremely shoddy journalism. I wonder if the original story appeared in print - anyone know?

I think I would probably stand my ground and await the police, although I imagine there is some legal get out that they have the right to eject anyone from their premises without explanation, so maybe you would still be at risk from the law.
 
Northerner said:
I'd like to know why they have not allowed the comments myself and others have submitted - there are still only the three comments that were there at 6am, yet I know of several people on FB who submitted comments.

It's good that they have highlighted the ignorance of some elements of the general public towards insulin injections, but to get everything so completely wrong is extremely shoddy journalism. I wonder if the original story appeared in print - anyone know?
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I submitted comments too, but they probably got rejected because the first line said it was the most badly written article about diabetes that I had ever read :D

My Mum reads the Daily Mail so I'll try and find out if the original version went to print.
 
Would it be possible to counter-charge using the DDA for potentially endangering your health?
 
Northerner said:
but to get everything so completely wrong is extremely shoddy journalism...
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I think it's worse than that. These are errors that the DM have made (and corrected) before. More and more I suspect that they are doing it deliberately.

All the forums and Twitter have lit up in outrage against the idiocy of the article, and now people are revisiting to read the changes.

All that traffic is a dream come true for the DMonline and will do their advertising profile/billing no harm at all.

I think a DOC-wide boycott of the website is in order.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
I think it's worse than that. These are errors that the DM have made (and corrected) before. More and more I suspect that they are doing it deliberately.

All the forums and Twitter have lit up in outrage against the idiocy of the article, and now people are revisiting to read the changes.

All that traffic is a dream come true for the DMonline and will do their advertising profile/billing no harm at all.
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You cynic you! 😛
 
An interesting notion Mike! 😱 Wouldn't put it past them - if they are so blas? about accuracy, then they clearly have no great desire for credibility and trust in their journalism :(
 
You can post feedback on the site!- and Ive done just that
 
Redkite said:
You cynic you! 😛
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Not often... but about this I'm afraid 'Guilty as charged'.

I decided a year or two ago not to visit the site and there have been perhaps bi-monthly stories that people have directed me to (that I've deliberately not visited) that sort of back up my tame conspiracy theory. 🙄
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Not often... but about this I'm afraid 'Guilty as charged'.

I decided a year or two ago not to visit the site and there have been perhaps bi-monthly stories that people have directed me to (that I've deliberately not visited) that sort of back up my tame conspiracy theory. 🙄
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Maybe you're right but I tend to favour the careless sloppy journalism verdict! The Daily Mail is far from being the only offender when it comes to writing rubbish about diabetes, but it's one of the few newspapers that is still free to access online, so perhaps that's why a lot of links come from it. I never noticed there were adverts on the pages lol!
 
Redkite said:
Maybe you're right but I tend to favour the careless sloppy journalism verdict! The Daily Mail is far from being the only offender when it comes to writing rubbish about diabetes, but it's one of the few newspapers that is still free to access online, so perhaps that's why a lot of links come from it. I never noticed there were adverts on the pages lol!
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There aren't any adverts when I visit it now, thanks to the recommendation from AlisonM to install 'AdBlock' 🙂 Saving me at least 100mg a day in downloads! 🙂
 
Northerner said:
There aren't any adverts when I visit it now, thanks to the recommendation from AlisonM to install 'AdBlock' 🙂 Saving me at least 100mg a day in downloads! 🙂
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Thanks for that tip Northerner! Though I hadn't realised you could measure downloads in mg :D
 
Redkite said:
I never noticed there were adverts on the pages lol!
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Not interacting with the ad yourself is neither here not there in some respects. It is traffic/page views that will (in no small part) determine what advertisers will be asked to pay to advertise on the page. DM gets the ad revenue even if the advertisers do not benefit in the slightest from all those irate visitors.

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You could well be right it simply being sloppy journalism, of course. But I'll still continue my one-person boycott! :D
 
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