Future of Diabetes Survey

[pav]

Ooh, another point I thought of when I was filling in the form and then forgot 🙄 ... please can diabetes UK make a big attempt to educate GPs about diabetes? The level of ignorance is astonishing!

Agree with this there's a big lack of knowledge amongst GP's and the nurses, with my last one taking years to get a supposed qualified professional DN, then when they did she was fresh out of training and did not have a clue of what happens in the real world. Treating everyone as a number and not the individual where she had a one solution fits all. Yet to find out what my new GP practice is like on diabetic care.

Survey done as well.

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

I've found diabetes nurses pretty good about realising people are all different, and also about being willing to learn from patients. GPs, however ... 😱

R once rang emergency out of hours GP for me on holiday, when I'd injected Novorapid and then been unable to eat (sometimes can't chew or swallow, due to other illness). I only wanted to check how many spoonsful of sugar I needed to put in my tea to cover what I'd injected. Nurse we spoke to initially told me not to have sugar at all as diabetics can obviously only have sugar as a hypo treatment (she also told me I must be type 2 because I'm an adult 🙄 - I put her right on that one!) Then we got doctor, who told me not to inject my basal that night! DSN was horrified when I told her!

My own GP recently asked me "do you test twice a day?" I'd be dead by now if I only tested twice a day! 😱 Explained that I inject 4 times a day, so I have to test 4 times a day at the very, very least.