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"The Hospital" CH4 Prog on Diabetes Mon 16th August 9pm

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Nice reply from channel 4 and got back to you within 48 😱
 
Northerner said:
p.s. there's no hyphen in our forum address - putting the hyphen in sends them to another forum with a very similar name! 😱
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B****r!!! 😱 Hopefully a forum with some suitabley strongly worded opinions on it, anyway!! 😱
 
I know, I know, I'm like a dog with a bone, but this really bugged me... so I emailed again...

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To C4
Many thanks for your response, it is appreciated. Would you please be kind enough to pass on two more comments to the producers? The first was just that I erroneously included a hyphen in the name of the forum I mentioned - it should have been DiabetesSupport.co,uk - if they are ever planning another documentary on diabetes (of any type!) I suspect they would find many articulate & enthusiastic volunteers there!


The other point I just wished to make in response to the producers comments, was just to say that I still feel the distinction between the types, especially considering teenagers is essential. You may recall the government's recent "Fit for life" campaign - what you might not know is that almost immediately after it was aired, incidences of bullying of type 1 diabetics in schools dramatically increased, with children & teenagers being accused of bringing the condition on themselves by being fat or eating too many sweets, in spite of the clear fact that Type 1 is an autoimmune condition, not lifestyle related. A group of parents petitioned the government successfully and managed to get the wording of the adverts changed. I think this just confirms how sensitive the issue can be, and personnally feel that the perceived social stigma due to general ignorance around diabetes and it's causes might be a significant factor in why some teens don't want to be 'visible' diabetics and try to ignore their condition.


Once again, thank-you for your patience in reading my comments & responding to them.

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C4's response:

Please be assured your further comments have been noted and logged and have been forwarded for the information of those responsible for our programming.

Thank you again for taking the time to contact us.

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OK, promise to leave this alone now....!! (Hope I got my facts right re the fit for life campaign!! 😱 )
 
Thouroughly enjoyed the read, thanks twitchy...........😛
 
I'm waiting for a letter back from Channel four. Then again I suppose they don't even know what a letter is so I'll be waiting in vain. I'm seriously thinking about writing to Professor Savine. I like his style.

Tom
 
Nice response from them, sounds like they took their time to reply. I learnt a new word too, 'germane', never heard it before. Thought it was a footballer's name or something...

Check out this picture of the doctor:

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How silly, bet he's never given an insulin shot in his life 😉
 
I wasn't paying enough attention to what was said, I was too busy shouting at my laptop when I was watching it!
Almost time for me to go and drag my DSN to a game of football...
 
There have been a couple of replies from channel 4 to the mums on the email list and they are the same bog standard replies. Guess someone just hits a button.
 
Yay, it's on again tonight.

I'm about to watch "when cousins marry" :/
 
Oh dude, me too.....

This week is supposed to be on a liver unit at Kings, my local hospital so I will be watching goggle-eyed....

Im also tuned in on this first cousin thing- how sad this is....
 
Sugarbum said:
Oh dude, me too.....

This week is supposed to be on a liver unit at Kings, my local hospital so I will be watching goggle-eyed....

Im also tuned in on this first cousin thing- how sad this is....
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It will be interesting to see how I react to this one, as it's not quite so close to home.
 
Wow the liver is big.....

Anyone watching?
 
i just watched the episode i felt really angry because of the attitude of the doc talking only about being fat and overeating you dont really get diabetes like that he did not mention anithing about t1 and t2 and really all the patient that they are missing their app after a few times they should be fined or something like that (but probably they dont care) jdrf are sending out article about the programme any body got it yet?
 
Only got round to watching this last night, I found it very interesting, yes there are clips of what some say that you could get het up about, but all round from my point of view I think it was good, and highlights the seriousness of this thing, not so good!, I just wish amoungst others, all those going through teenage angst or whatever it is see the light with as few complications as possible.

Take care one & all

Rossi
 
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