Abdul Rais talks about lack of knowledge about Diabetes and health can result in lack of enthusiasm for medical treatment. He thinks this may also be relevant to the use of new technology, but also even for the use of Insulin.
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I think they're using just as much they could be, whether they should be or not, I don't know, but you know, for example, now with the pumps and the rest, it's mostly type one people who are affected or who are qualified to receive them anyway, but I think I know that even using insulin is something that people are not very keen on. I'm a prime example but my reason is different. It's because of me being at the bottom end of of my BMI, even two, three units of insulin actually send me into a hypo. So I've got a different reason, but mostly people, they see it as, there is obviously the fear of needles as well in many cases. And also people find that the management, because of, again, education is something that, you know, lack of education, and I mean medical education, they, because of that reason, they seem to think that I, you know, I don't want to manage it myself, basically, that's the attitude is that if you, you know, want my GP to take care of everything. So, if there's anything, you know, they, because again, lack of education about diabetes means that people are quite often just reliant on what the, what the GP rightly or wrongly and they don't sometimes don't want to learn either because learning means that then the onus is on you and perhaps you know you're not ready or not in a don't want to take the responsibility so it's probably best to rely on the on the GP and let them tell me what to do. So I think, yeah, education on that side is important.
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