Living with Diabetes

By the way, the medical establishment doesn’t get diabetes

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Okay, the diabetes specialists do.  But the average doctor?

I had admitted to the lapband surgeon I saw today that my diabetes was out of control.  When she noticed I had an insulin pump, she asked “doesn’t it know what your blood sugar is?”

She even has a friend who is getting a CGMS, but didn’t know that they didn’t work well.  I will admit I haven’t wore one in a while, but my skin rejected the sensors and never gave me very good readings.  I’m hoping they work better now, but I’m not willing to be the guinea pig again, anytime soon.

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4 responses to “By the way, the medical establishment doesn’t get diabetes”

  1. Scott S Avatar
    Scott S

    Wow, that’s scary how ill-informed people in the medical profession are about what these devices actually do. The claim is that electronic medical records will eliminate this by making a patient’s full medical records available at their fingertips. But I doubt electronic medical records will really eliminate instances where doctors are so focused on their own specialties they don’t know what’s going on outside of it. There’s a lot to stay abreast of even within a given medical specialty. Having said this, I would think a lapband surgeon who works with people with diabetes frequently should really make more of an effort to know about what’s going on in the diabetes space. Perhaps with your experience, you are helping to educate this surgeon!

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    Scott S

    Wow, that’s scary how ill-informed people in the medical profession are about what these devices actually do. The claim is that electronic medical records will eliminate this by making a patient’s full medical records available at their fingertips. But I doubt electronic medical records will really eliminate instances where doctors are so focused on their own specialties they don’t know what’s going on outside of it. There’s a lot to stay abreast of even within a given medical specialty. Having said this, I would think a lapband surgeon who works with people with diabetes frequently should really make more of an effort to know about what’s going on in the diabetes space. Perhaps with your experience, you are helping to educate this surgeon!

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    KWeaver

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    The good news is that few Type 2s are on insulin, much less pumps.
    Which also is the bad news.
    Sent from my Windows Phone
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    KWeaver

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    The good news is that few Type 2s are on insulin, much less pumps.
    Which also is the bad news.
    Sent from my Windows Phone
    From:

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