My wife is expecting twins. Until 2 weeks ago everything was going great, and then she was diagnosed with pregnancy diabetes. Fortunately, nothing too serious as she does not have to inject insulin. She needs to be careful about what she eats, and needs to check her sugar level 7 times a day.
Unfortunately she also has a nasty cold and infection to deal with, and our general practitioner prescribed antibiotics to help her deal with that. The side effect of those is that her sugar levels increase after taking them. So yesterday we got the advice from the hospital to monitor the situation and contact our general practitioner if the levels remain too high.
This morning we found another very high sugar level, so I called our gp to explain and ask him whether he could prescribe sugar-free antibiotics. He told us that there is nothing to worry about, that her sugar level would be higher from being sick, nothing to do with the antibiotics. Now we know that is not true, because she was sick all of last weekend, and her sugar levels never rose above 110 on average. The levels after taking antibiotics were above 138 all 3 times (120 being the maximum allowed).
As I told him we received advice from the hospital to ask him for a new prescription he replied as such:
Then let the hospital solve the problem, I am not giving a new prescription.
*Click*
That was it, end of conversation…
We contacted the hospital who advised us to continue taking them (as they are really needed to fix the infection), and come back next week for a checkup.
So in the end, he did not have to do anything, but how about showing some professionalism and respect for your patients, who depend on you for medical advice? He is not seeing us again, that is certain.
