Re: In Diabetes, Get Glucose Control 'Just Right'


"Cheri" <cherig3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Chris Malcolm" <cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ozgirl <are_we_there_yet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Helen Back wrote:

I wish they had magic pills to help GP's learn and understand diabetes
better (not everyone is offered endo professionalism); I wish they had
magic pills to help diabetics who wont take control of their
condition.

But just how much more should a GP learn about diabetes. Or
ophthalmology or
kidney disease or heart disease... Get my drift? A GP is a "general"
practitioner. They should know something about the common illnesses and
diseases etc. If a patient presents with cancer they are referred to an
oncologist, a brain tumour and they get referred to a neurologist. Why
is it
that everyone expects their GP to be able to adequately treat diabetes?

Because as you point out the GP refers patients on to specialists when
necessary. The GP's expertise is in knowing when to refer to a
specialist. So if the GP doesn't refer you on to an endo or
diabetologist that's because in his expert opinion you don't need to
be referred on. Who are you as a non-specialist with no medical
training to doubt the medical expertise of your doctor?


+1

Do we seriously need to score off our peers in this group Cheri - you are
not the Cheri I am used to? As to Chris's point, there have been enough
tales in this group showing that a lot of GP's don't know enough about
diabetes (and rightly so, they are not expected to be "specialists"). I
don't doubt my GP's medical expertise, he knows what he needs to know to
treat people in a general way. But I do like to retain the right to ask for
a referral if I don't think I am getting better or preventing complications
with his view on how I should be treated. That is vastly different to
thinking that as a lap person I know more than my doctor.


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