Is your doctor doing enough to help you?

1-Are you satisfied with your doctor approach to your diabetes?
2- Have you changed your doctor? and why?
3-who diagnosed you with diabetes;
Just by routine screening
you suspected you are diabetic and went to see your doctor
4-Do you like your doctor’s attitude?
5-Do you chose your doctor according to his background,race,relegion…?

  1. Overall yes
  2. I have changed my doctor once… because he decided to quit and I had become way to old to be visited by a pediatrician :wink:
  3. My pediatrician
  4. Yes
  5. No
  1. Yes, my endo approaches everything very realistically. She considers where I am in my life, what I can handle in terms of treatment, and is current on new technologies. (For instance, she had me on Apidra after the FDA approved it but before it was commercially available.)

  2. Yes, I saw a very talented and respected endo in the Dallas area from the ages of 18 to 24. Now, I will grant him that my college years were certainly my least successful as a diabetic and I’m sure my control was frustrating to him, but I found him to be too negative and he didn’t inspire me to take better care of myself. He really was an attentive doctor, attending a recital I gave as a college music major and once rushing to my bedside at another hospital when a nurse refused to give me back my pump after an appendectomy. But he talked down to me. I needed a change in part because I wanted a fresh start. I wanted to be with a doc who didn’t hold my past mistakes over me. And my current doc is comforting, brilliant, and very savvy. So it was for the best.

  3. I was sent DKA by an ER doc to a children’s hospital where a pediatric endo team (an endo, a CDE, a dietician, and a social worker) cared for me. I had outpatient follow-up visits at the hospital every three months from the time I was 10 until I left for college (which is when the endo retired and transferred me into adult care).

  4. Yes. I like her attitude. And she has been very good about matching me up with CDEs, an ophthalmologist, and a podiatrist I love.

  5. I don’t have any interest in my doctor’s race or religion. But my mother-in-law does. She was uncomfortable with her Asian endocrinologist. I don’t understand or relate, but I don’t think it’s uncommon in the US, particularly among older patients, to be intimidated or uncomfortable by foreign-born doctors. The only background considerations I might concern myself with are credentials and education.

1-Are you satisfied with your doctor approach to your diabetes?
absolutely, it’s the first time I actually feel I am being taken seriously…goes for my endo and cde
2- Have you changed your doctor? and why?
yes. first time was b/c I was too old for a pediatrician. second time was b/c we found one closer to home
3-who diagnosed you with diabetes?
my pediatrician
4-Do you like your doctor’s attitude?
yes. she’s very down to earth, but knows when I need to understand something
5-Do you chose your doctor according to his background,race,relegion…?
never

1 - I go to a internist, whom I love, and an endo, who I don’t
2 - I had to change a lot because we moved a lot
3 - a pede - it’s a sad story
4 - my internist is great; he’s from India
5 - never! I also don’t discriminate on gender

1-Are you satisfied with your doctor approach to your diabetes?

I just changed my team recently because I did not feel that my endo and his CDE were able to keep up with my needs. So far, with limited experience, my new team seems very good.

2- Have you changed your doctor? and why?

I have just switched to my 4th endo in 26 years. I left the first because he passed away. I left the second because he was so obnoxious I did not go too often. I left the third because I felt the office visits were too perfunctory and he had completely delegated the day to day aspects of my care to his CDE. I left his CDE because I felt I had gotten everything out of her that I could get. So far, my new team seems pretty good, but it is too early to tell.

3-who diagnosed you with diabetes;
Just by routine screening
you suspected you are diabetic and went to see your doctor

My father’s internist, whom I saw because I had lost a lot of weight and was passing urine by the gallon.

4-Do you like your doctor’s attitude?

So far so good, but too early to tell, as yet.

5-Do you chose your doctor according to his background,race,relegion…?

I discriminate based solely on competence and rapport. Nothing else matters.

1-Are you satisfied with your doctor approach to your diabetes?

I really like my doctor a alot, but sometimes I have to lead him into a line of thinking with regards to my diabetes. He is a family practitioner not an endo.

2- Have you changed your doctor? and why?

No. I had to opportunity to do so when my doctor left his practice in my hometown to move to one in the city of Boston. Just the mere thought of going through the agony of finding someone with the right attitude and temperment horrified me.

3-who diagnosed you with diabetes;
Just by routine screening
you suspected you are diabetic and went to see your doctor

I was diagnosed in the ER when I was sent in by my doctor’s office. My blood pressure was sky high and they were afraid I was going to either have a heart attack or a stroke…neither of which happened .

4-Do you like your doctor’s attitude?

I like him a lot. He takes the time to listen to me and is a real gentleman. I’ve had a couple of doctors treat me as if I wasn’t worthy of their time. That’s an attitude that should NEVER be tolerated. They are in a service based industry and should treat each patient as if they are a member of their own family.

5-Do you chose your doctor according to his background,race,relegion…?

No. I have no idea what his religion is and I don’t care…

http://www.tcoyd.org/Dr_Edelmans_Corner.php

Please check out this excellent article on “Clinical Intertia” by Dr. Steve Edelman.

  1. Very pleased with him. He is a GP but does a great job with my diabetes and listens when I talk to him or bring him information in about the latest research/treatments.
  2. Have changed many times when I have been uncomfortable with a doctor or his staff. Even got kicked out of one doctor’s practice for asking questions.
  3. Emergency Room, Passed out at a friends house
  4. My doctor has a very friendly, matter of fact, up front attitude that I like.
  5. I was referred to him by my allergist actually when I said I was looking for a new doctor.

1My primary care docter yes! Well we are just getting to know one another but yes! My other dr. retired. Thinking of changeing my endo because she has like no real hours that fit into my schudule and a mean receptionist that needs to get a fast food job were she can get out but 300pm everyday.Well my mom was seeing signs that she did not like that reminded her of when my brother was dx. So she ordered bloodwork. But it was my dr at the time that called with10064.My primary care doctor is really cool:)No ! AS LONG AS THEY WANT TO BE PART OF MY MEDICAL TEAM AND HELP ME FEEL MY BEST!!!diabeticidol94

1-Are you satisfied with your doctor approach to your diabetes?

YES!

2- Have you changed your doctor? and why?

Yes, my first doctor was in Abilene (where I was diagnosed), second was just some random endo who thought I was a type 2 and questioned my type 1 diagnosis (can you say Tool?), my third was a really sweet old guy who retired., my fourth I still have and really like, he was suggested to me by my old landlord (a doctor),

3-who diagnosed you with diabetes; Just by routine screening you suspected you are diabetic and went to see your doctor

I was in college up in Abilene and my mother came up because I was was not feeling well… we went tot he minor emergency clinic and then it was off to the ER after noting my BGs was over 600, WHOOHOO!

4-Do you like your doctor’s attitude?

Yes

5-Do you chose your doctor according to his background,race,relegion…?

nope… just recommendation and how we jive together

I joined on July 14,started reading the forum on daily basis,discovering that my friends here know that the burden of education lies in their own hand and here on this site I discoverd a reference for all diabetics better than books.
Many here are not satisfied with their doctors and I am discovering why.
On daily basis I invite doctors to join us to learn from the members comments , to improve their practice and attitude in addition to updating their knowledge to catch up with thier patients…

1-Are you satisfied with your doctor approach to your diabetes?
Yes,although it is a team approach not individual doctor. I’ve had input/courses from hospital with input from dietician, several doctors and nurses.
2- Have you changed your doctor? and why?
No
3-who diagnosed you with diabetes;
I suspected you are diabetic and went to see your doctor.
I went to see a gp, having thought I had diabetes for 3 years but because I thought that it was mild/type 2(!!) and that as I had a good diet and exercised I was doing what a doctor would have advised anyway. Eventually went to unknown (at time) GP as I started losing weight for the second time and was by now thin + had incidence of rapid breathing during exercise. I don’t know how well I explained things, since I had to explain in a language that I’m not fluent in but GP looked sceptical. Sent me for fasting test, results were faxed to him next day and he sent for me and sent me straight to hospital. Put on insulin pump, three days later told I had type 1 (or perhaps 1.5) in spite of my age at diagnosis(54)
4-Do you like your doctor’s attitude?
Yes, though theres sometimes a language problem. My doctor initiated the idea of an insulin pump to help avoid exercise induced hypos and arranged for me to see a sports specialist when she learned I was training for a marathon.The senior doctor at the hospital has also been most supportive and interested in what I was doing. He initiallly thought that I was ‘too tightly controlled with too low an HBA1c’, but when he began to understand that I’d taught myself to carb count and insulin adjust and that most of my hypos were exercise related and I was not jumping from very low to very high he seemed to change his mind. This was one of the benefits of a 5 day course, a lot of interraction between a small group of patients and the health care team. I think both ‘sides’ benefited…
5-Do you chose your doctor according to his background,race,relegion…?
Didn’t choose any of my doctors, the GP was the one available when I decided to go and see one. The doctors are those employed by the local hospital. I would not choose a doctor on those criteria but have never really been in a health care system when that type of choice was possible/normal

1-Are you satisfied with your doctor approach to your diabetes?
For the most part … she is the one who was pushing the pump for me knowing that it can do wonders for some people. Since pumping though she hasn’t really had a huge involvement in managing my readings … that’s more my CDE’s part.
2- Have you changed your doctor? and why?
Once … when I was about 21 and couldn’t see a pediatric endo anymore! lol
3-who diagnosed you with diabetes;
Just by routine screening
you suspected you are diabetic and went to see your doctor
My parents pretty much diagnosed me … my father was type 1 so they recongized the symptoms immediately & checked my bg. When it was elevated they took me to the ER where I was formally diagnosed.
4-Do you like your doctor’s attitude?
Sure, she can be a bit matter of fact sometimes but I can’t say I wouldn’t be like that if I were a dr for insurance reasons. She also recommends other great specialists.
5-Do you chose your doctor according to his background,race,relegion…?
She came recommended by my late mother-in-law who worked at the hospital she is affiliated with. I also chose her because she is female! =)

Actually I saw lots of disatisfaction from many friends with their doctors.Medical professionals have to put a survey for their patients to answer so they can improve the standard of their care.I will do this questionaire.