No, you are not really mean because if you are, so am I! I often hope karma kicks in for some of these medical people that fail to properly treat their patients and they end up getting the very disease they failed to treat right.
I think they should not only go to diabetes camp, but be issued a CGM and a pump (with sterile water, of course, not insulin) and be “graded” on how well they coped with counting carbs, tracking exercise and sedentary time, matching their faux insulin to their energy needs, managed their calibration BG tests, remembered to log everything, etc.
Anyone at the end of diabetes camp with a fake A1C above 7 would flunk and have to do it again – but hey, no pressure.
I also think they should each have to go through a day in a hospital bed under close supervision being taken up into the HIGH range and then crashed back down below 50 so they can get a “feel” for it, too – but then again, what we go through every day would be “too dangerous” to do to a non-diabetic student, right? But still they dare to judge us as if we were indolent children. Meh.
Sanofi-Aventis FTW $3,270,022!!
I’m always intrigued by the “people w/ diabetes= cash cows” argument. I’m not 100% sure that it works though because I think that the majority of people with diabetes have a much rougher time of if than the 20K members here (only a small %age of whom participate in our kibbitzing…) and are likely not getting nearly as much ca$h for BD, Sanofi, Bayer, etc. as perhaps I do? If I get say $10K/ year in benefits, for which I pay maybe $1000 in copays (this year may be a bit of an anomaly with the “Close Encounters of the Cardiac Kind”…), there are thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people who get 4 strips/ day who are considerably less profitable for their “dealers” than I am? I would find the Ca$h Cow argument more credible if the insurance lobby (which I am certain exists…) were more aggressively lobbying for a higher and broader standard of care for all people with diabetes, in which case considerably more profit could be extorted from the marketplace. As long as I’m haring about stuff like “T2 diabetes, tests glucose every other day” (cost $13/ month to health insurance?) I am not sure I am totally buying the cash cow argument.
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Someday Hope Warshaw will look back on her career and mourn that she took such a stance with diabetes nutrition.
She looks old, she is running out the clock to retirement. I don’t think that she will have a lot of regrets. In fact, I strongly suspect she will enjoy some cake at her retirement party.
Let’s hope that happy day comes very, very soon.