I enjoyed your post David, particularly you sharing with us your PCP willingness to acknowledge his limitation as far as his knowledge of diabetes.
I am currently teaching pre-med students patient/provider communications at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. One of the main things I teach the prospective physicians is the importance of building a partnership between themselves and the patient.
Thank you for your post.
I have met a goodly number of doctors o I changed my old PCP because my situation got too complicated for him and when he got scared, it scared me. My new PCP is at least intelligent. But he is the one I am squabbling with about test strips. My dismissive Endocrinologist I donāt go to anymore, in favor of just using my PCP to do diabetic stuff.
My Infectious Disease saved my life then was very humble about it. My Pulmo just looked at me one time and put me in the hospital and then told me never to see him ever again and I wonāt. There was a Blood Doctor who only wanted to talk about my brother. He knew my brotherā¦ blah blah blah. One of my ENTs was arrested, I think, for something financial.
My GI is pretty cookie cutter, but I love his nurse. She is the best nurse I have ever met anywhere. It is true that that GI doctor is very talented about giving shots. I have been torn up by hundrrds of nurses and blood techs and vampires over the years. Some nurses are good about drawing blood and others are just horrible and sadistic and make it hurt by grinding the needle around inside till there a huge bruise. The hospital nurses generally do not know how to treat diabetes with insulin. In the hospital, I wonāt let them touch my diabetes. And the glassy eyed nurse of my current PCP really is a zombie, having risen from the desd to eat the living.
I am grateful for the good medical professionals whom I have met, because I have seen a lot of them over the years. I just like the good ones.
I hate people like that. Iāve seen that kind of post in a lot of places and wonder if same individual. Does he even actually have diabetes or part of a sham??
Iām type 2. I donāt come down and tell anyone how to manage their diabetes be it type 1 or type 2. And yes, weāre all different in how we handle things.
Iāve gotten a very tight control in maintaining on mine. Doctor told me that if someone didnāt know me they wouldnāt know Iām diabetic from my latest reads. But also said at same time that Iāll always be a diabetic and must stay at this maintaining.
Told me that weāre like Alcoholics in a way. That if we donāt watch what the heck we do weāre screwed. He has a relative thatās an alcoholic and any time the individual goes someplace they already know time, location of the AAās meeting when getting there. Said that at times he thinks diabetics needs something like that also. After thinking about it I can see his point. I like the guy. He donāt point fingers and is very frank in things. Iāll miss when he retires. Very good doctor.
Understands what diabetics go through.
But back to the subject. That individual still a member of that group? They didnāt kick out as a spammer?
You know, I decided that the very best way to improve my life, with diabetes, was to maintain my serenity by staying the hell away from Facebook.
I donāt go to the diabetes section there. I do like the various aircraft groups though. Having worked various jets throughout the career I kinda got them in the blood somehow. 
Plus can keep in touch with family and friends. But when comes to diabetes I stay away from the groups. See enough b.s. from morons regularly enough on the subject as it is on the web or those āyouāve got to try this. Iāll cure you.ā things that some ākind heartedā person sent to me. āBless their heartā. 
I hear you, John. My younger son tried to almost shame-me-into it. So I had him put me on Facebook. Next day I was off forever more! My name for Facebook is Zombies Rising! Never again!!!
Hear, hear! 
I think that applies to life-improvements of all kinds - diabetes notwithstanding!
I personally donāt mind being called diabetic, because this is the truth. I am of course, a mother, a daughter, a sister and so forth as well, but canāt hide from the fact that I am a diabetic.
@Georgia_boy I posted an updated on the situation a few posts before yours.
That person is no longer a part of the group and got kicked out or was asked to leave.
@annasdiabetes I completely agree with you on that, while I do understand why someone might prefer otherwise.
Since Iāve been living with diabetes for 30 years, it has become a big part of me and Iām actually proud of that part as it helped to shape who I am as a person. Being called diabetic isnāt degrading to me at all, like calling someone an engineer isnāt necessarily reducing them to just their line of work. Itās almost a little bit like being Jewish to me. Iām a non-practicing one but still identify as one because of the cultural and historical aspects of it that I share with that group of people.
I know a number of people who object to the term. Personally I think the whole debate smacks of political correctness. I donāt care what label is applied to me. There are much bigger fish to fryālike educating the public and getting legislative support.
Iām totally in agreement with David. I donāt care what Iām called. Iām constantly learning and trying to teach others what diabetes really is. My wife never thought much more than a word after she saw me working on trying to gain and maintain. Then one day I call home during lunch and she told me she didnāt know until she saw some doctors in a panel answering questions on diabetes on one of her Korean Channels. She told me about how she learned weāre more susceptible to heart attacks, strokes. and other things happening. I said, āTheyāre right dear, Been trying to tell you all of this before as to why Iām doing what Iām doing.ā For once there was a television doctors show that I was glad for her to see. I usually hate any television doctors show because most are for the ratings and pass on a lot of misinformation and so many believe because they saw on television.
And who cares what anybody else thinks? If they insist, I just tell them I have Liv-abetes. I come to this site to hear from the enlightened.
I like liv-abetted! I say Iām a dia-badbutt (not the word butt, however).