Your story, SherryAnn, is another example of the deliberate ignorance in place within these institutions. If the medical “pros” cannot take the time to make an informed decision when dosing with a possibly lethal medication, then I don’t consider them professional. They can argue all they want about their workload and distractions but if they can’t ratchet up their attention when it comes to life or death decisions, they don’t deserve to practice.
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I am in the process of gathering good and not so good stories about diabetes treatment in; hospitals, mental health facilities, addiction recovery centers, prisions/jails basically anywhere you could be viewed as being unfit to self manage your diabetes. You have started a great discussion on this topic. I want to help educate and change the culture about diabetes.
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Hospitalist also tried to kill me with his lack of knowledge. Took away my long acting insulin and because I was NPO for a procedure, did not check my sugars or give me any insulin. I was already so sick from problem that put me in hospital that I didn’t realize what was happening. Ended up in CCU for 4 days and they almost lost me. To make it worse my husband said when floor staff worked on me they were treating me for alcohol never mind I had been in hospital for 3 days prior and my chart said I hadn’t been drinking. THANK GOD the critical care doc that came in.
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Don’t they understand that your liver was still going to produce glucose to fuel your essential needs. That steady drip of glucose from the liver needs insulin to metabolize. This doesn’t stop just because you don’t eat! How do they defend this incompetence?
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