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Thanks again for your comments. It seems that with diabetes, the interactions between patient and provider are always unique and dependent on each person's circumstances - which makes things difficult!
I was wondering if any of you kept a log of your medical condition over time, and if this is shared with your providers? Say if you had been feeling more thirsty than normal, would you have a way of recording this, or would you just keep it in mind and try to bring it up at the next consultation?
Tried keeping a log and took it down, highlighting the things that were worrying me most and it was rubbished by one doctor and laughed at by the other, I tried talking to the nurses and they said it was the doctors decision. I know not all doctors are like this as my dad (also type 2) gets a lot of help and all the time he needs. His doctor will even make a weekend appointment if necessary!
At the moment my best solution is to win the lottery and buy a house next door to a good doctor and move.
Oh dear. That does not sound good.
Unfortunately there is little we can do about changing your doctor's attitude, but studies have shown that any kind of knowledge-sharing (however irrelevant it may seem at the time) can be beneficial to both patient and provider.
Is there perhaps an issue of lack of trust from the doctor's perspective? They may feel it is their job to diagnose the patient themselves rather than being told the patient's opinions.
Is it normal practice for nurses and doctors to communicate about these issues, or is it usually left for the patient to bring them up at each consultation? If perhaps a nurse could send a note to the doctor pointing out her concerns, the doctor may value this opinion more so than entries made in a patient's log. What do you think?
Unfortunately in our practice the nurse thinks she is always right and the doctor thinks he is always right and they are bit like the North and South Poles, neither is prepared to see the others point of view. We get more sense out of the people who are not medically trained at our surgery, the receptionists and the cleaners, and they are doing what we are doing, finding out for themselves because no one else will tell them.
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