General directives in management

Abstract

It must be already apparent that it is essential for a diabetic to establish a close rapport with his doctor. You obviously need a doctor who is frank with you and who can be contacted with ease in times of an emergency. Similarly, you must be truthful to yourself and your doctor. It is not unusual for a patient to ignore all instructions from one visit to the next and not bother to test his urine or keep to any sort of diet, only to discipline himself strictly for 2 or 3 days before the next visit to the doctor, so that his blood sugar levels, when checked, appear well controlled. This sort of patient will also prefabricate urine tests in order to mislead his doctor. This is obviously a stupid, immature type of approach that courts disaster. Without mutual understanding and trust it becomes that much more difficult for a diabetic to keep himself healthy and well.