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Mo - Interview 25  

Mo - Interview 25

Age at Interview: 52
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 51
Background: Mo is an administrator and is married with 3 children aged 34, 26 and 2. Ethnic background/Nationality: Jamaican.
Brief outline:Diagnosed a year ago, Mo currently takes metformin and gliclazide though she began trying to control her diabiates by diet alone.

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Mo recently took part in a diabetes study and says she felt more supported by that than by the locums she usually sees at her local practice.

 



And as for the doctors, you know you make an appointment and you see a locum nine times out of ten so again I don't feel I know the doctors well enough or they don't know me well enough because when I go I find that they're looking more at the screen for information you know rather than actually interacting with me as a patient.

Yeah, I mean you feel like you get more attention in the study that you would...?

Well certainly because there's, it's like you've got a one to one person and you can say, “Well I've got this symptom and you know”, chew it over, they're checking your weight, they're checking you know your diet and you don't have that sort of thing with your doctor I mean, say you go in, and it's a screen and off you go. So, rightly or wrongly but they just don't have the time for that sort of, I think that's why they set up with a diabetic nurse, but as I say because I'm seeing a diabetic nurse, and I'm seeing a dietician, and I'm seeing a doctor I think, I'm getting a better deal than someone who just goes along to their GP or the practice.
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