[stylist] helping doctors with blindness

[James Canaday M.A. N6YR]

Judith,
it doesn't work to think you can just avoid the people who are paternalistic.

I've seen my Endocrynologist doctor for several years, she's a very 
good doctor: good at her job and a person with good attitudes.

but when considering the two insulin orders for me, she nearly opted 
for slightly less effective meds with more side-effects if I 
hadn't  queried her about  her choice.  she was so concerned about my 
confusing the two, the short-acting and the long-acting insulins, 
that she chose  more potential weight gain and slightly less effective.
she deals with people who have lost their sight due to diabetes.  I 
am not her first blind patient.

the two boxes are identical, and the "flex-pens" look identical to the touch.
the long-acting I simply marked with a  line cut into the lid of its 
box, they sit next to heach other in the fridge.

if I weren't such an onery cuss, I would have gotten  lesser meds 
because she was trying to figure out something for me.
jc
Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS
At 02:26 PM 3/27/2009, you wrote:
>Let the good ones strive to help kids, or adults, recover some 
>vision.  For the steno doctor who feels they have  to look like they 
>know what they're doing by writing scripts and giving false hope, retire.
>----- Original Message ----- From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
>To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:20 AM
>Subject: Re: [stylist] helping doctors with blindness
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>When David worked at the hospital, they gave him the Eye clinic to cover.
>Doctors have no idea what to do when a person loses his sight.   They are
>focused on fixing you.   When they can't, they give up.   A doctor 
>actually told
>David's mother he wouldn't amount to anything because he was blind, and she
>ought to let doctors experiment on him.
>Lori
>
>In a message dated 3/26/09 12:58:40 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:
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>>Perhaps we should be sending this thread to doctors. As medical
>>professionals they are committed to saving as much sight as possible.
>>According to this thread some of their treatments and procedures are wrong.
>>Do any of us have the right to tell them not to do what they strive to do?
>>Judith
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