MikeyBikey
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I found out today my first diabetes consultant died only a few months ago. Amongst patients he was known as "Dr Fear" as in those early clinics sixty years ago there were ;people waiting with white sticks, bandaged feet and legs, and other diabetes related issues. He made sure you knew what being a "bad" diabetic could result in. The pity was I was told to try for a urine sugar of 1/4% which in the eighties I found out equated to a BG somewhere 11 - 12! To my knowledge he held clinics in St Albans' City Hospital and Welwyn Garden City's Hospital. He retired about 1990 and shortly after I went to GP care as his replacement did not believe in HbA1c testing but was convinced it was cholesterol.
I know very little about him as his BMJ obituary is behind a paywall. What little I know is that he was born in 1925 and died in April this year at the age of 99. The other bits I remember was his wife died around forty years ago and he liked Saabs (he had his own reserved space at the hospital..
Were any long term diabetics here under him?
RIP - David
I know very little about him as his BMJ obituary is behind a paywall. What little I know is that he was born in 1925 and died in April this year at the age of 99. The other bits I remember was his wife died around forty years ago and he liked Saabs (he had his own reserved space at the hospital..
Were any long term diabetics here under him?
RIP - David