Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In this corner: a person with diabetes who faces a list of diet, exercise, medication and testing instructions that must be carried out every single day for the rest of his life.
In the other corner: the doctor who hears the patient insisting he's doing all he can -- yet sees test results that seem to tell a very different story.
Clinical psychologist William Polonsky says one of the less-explored complications of diabetes is the doctor-patient relationship. Frustrated patients who feel their hard work isn't paying off may change doctors repeatedly. Doctors who think their orders are going unheeded have been known to drop patients.
http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/emotional-toll-can-put-diabetes-patients-families-doctors-odds
In the other corner: the doctor who hears the patient insisting he's doing all he can -- yet sees test results that seem to tell a very different story.
Clinical psychologist William Polonsky says one of the less-explored complications of diabetes is the doctor-patient relationship. Frustrated patients who feel their hard work isn't paying off may change doctors repeatedly. Doctors who think their orders are going unheeded have been known to drop patients.
http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/emotional-toll-can-put-diabetes-patients-families-doctors-odds