[stylist] helping doctors with blindness

[Judith Bron]

James, My father died from complications of diabetes.  His doctor stunk but 
my father never questioned his judgement.  Since my father had diabetes and 
my mother has it, I'm a prime candidate.  Both my husband and I have taken 
the bull by the horns and started eating a low carb diet.  Yes, I'm doing it 
for the weight loss benefits, but I'm sticking to low carb as opposed to 
other diets because of the benefits for diabetics.  I don't have the disease 
right now, but am preparing for the future.  Doctors, for the most part, try 
to be paternalistic.  Some of this is because they care and the other part 
is the MD after their name which gives them the right to know better than 
anyone else.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Canaday M.A. N6YR" <n6yr at sunflower.com>
To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] helping doctors with blindness


> 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
>>
>>
>>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:
>>
>>
>>>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>**************
>>Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10 or
>>less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
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