Sometimes patients know best.

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I know diabetes is a common disease and a mangeable one, but it still baffles me when you go into a hospital setting and you have doctors or nurses who sometimes think they know a little more about the disease then you do. I am not for a minute dismissing their medical education, but simply annoyed by the fact that they need to realize with or without a degree you have learned to live with this disease or someone suffering from it and you do know a little bit more about their personalized care than a doctor who you have just met. For instance there are some who do not believe there is such a thing as a brittle diabetic. Well, my mother is one and has been all my life. And on many occassions she has been in the hospital and followed their advice and I have walked in several times to find her in a reaction because she took her insulin without eating. Like I said I do know doctors, nurses know their stuff but they may have never met this type of diabetic and regular diabetic rules do not always apply to them. I work in healthcare as well and I know what their faces say when you explain things to them. After all these years she finally found a doctor who knew exactly what she was talking about (an endocronoligist) whereas the others int he past blamed her for her lows and highs on blood sugar. She has been the most stable in my lifetime these past 2 years. So how many of you out there are brittle diabetics? ANd have you run into problems with situations like this?