[Kozak]

Years after being diagnosed with diabetes, Lewis, 61, had never learned how to manage her disease or shield herself from its most debilitating effects.

Guess she can't pick up a book or do a little research on the internet huh?

Personal responsibility? Who me, I'm a patient. It's the doctors, nurses, dentists, paramedics problem, not MINE. /sarc.

[ziggy_dlo]

yes we have that problem to. They always call to whine about how medicaid will not pay for some insulin strips and they cry because the doctor did not want to see them.
It is the clients responsibilty to take care of their health when possible, but when you have client's taking their children to the hosital or the doctor because my head hurts (take some aspirin) my nose is stuffy (get some decongestants) my nose is running (get some dimetapp and some kleenex and wipe your nose). It is pitiful. What I see when someone calls me and says that that they do not have 3 dollars to get some antibiotics but you can hear tyhem in the background ordering a big mac and fries from Mcdonalds. Or one person told me "I am tired of my kids. Does medicaid pay for me to go on a vacation and to send my kids to the ymca while I am gone?"
Go figure!