Taking responsibility for yourself – The Angry Pharmacist <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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\nPatients need to start taking an active role in their own care of whatever they have.
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I agree with this statement wholeheartily but the system isn’t set up for us to do that.<\/p>\n
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I don’t remember how much I’ve blogged about my mother’s diagnosis of diabetes, and while it happened in Mississippi, only about a few moments of attitude above a third world country when it comes to medicine in my opinion….<\/p>\n
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Mom goes to a major medical center (the Ole Miss medical school in Jackson, Mississippi). My first problem with her diagnosis is that it too slow. She had been fighting a cough for over a year, been diagnosed by several different doctors with infections and they didn’t share notes. In my humble opinion, when an otherwise healthy person presents with three different infections in a year, something is up.<\/p>\n
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In her case, they finally pulled out a meter and did a finger stick — oh and by the way, my contact lens doctor does that much during routine eye exams and catches a few diabetics, but the way. Many that primary care physicians missed.<\/p>\n
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So they finally do a fasting glucose and get the results back the day before Christmas. Of course, they drop that bomb on her, leave her with a script and all go out of town until the middle of January. Kid you not.<\/p>\n
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They finally sent her to a nutritionist a few months later, after my sister and I spent time teaching lower carbs — my sister delivering food, and me giving information on the phone.<\/p>\n
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And she finally has learned which foods to stay away from after my sister and I convinced her to use the test strips at meals. And yeah, they give her about 100 strips a month. Not really enough if you are trying to learn what not to eat and what to eat, but better than nothing.<\/p>\n
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And by the way, I still resent the doctor blogger who lost a malpractice suit, they say because of his blog, but frankly any pedriatric specialist should never let a patient die of diabetes, I don’t care what his speciality is. Especially since my school system’s intake center regular catches are immigrants with diabetes (both Type 1 and Type 2) before they hit the classroom.<\/p>\n
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If a contact lens specialist and a urban school district can catch diabetic patients on a regular basis, why in the @#$# can’t the average medical doctor? Or specialist.<\/p>\n
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But as you can see by the above, patients are not equipped to take care of themselves, it’s been a long slow process and I still but my head up against the medical establishment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I left a comment on his blog today. Oddly enough, we do agree most of the time, I just don’t put is as angrily as he does — and I do invite the angry pharmacist to come over and take a look. Quoted from http:\/\/www.theangrypharmacist.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/taking_responsibility_for_your.html: Taking responsibility for yourself – The Angry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}