| Hey Kris,
I really have had only one somewhat bad experience with a doctor (in Phoenix, no less) and it really wasn't even his fault. - I suppose he was more of the messenger that I was trying to shoot at the time.
I had been diagnosed T1 a year or so earlier and was interested in getting on the pump. So my insurance company naturally wanted a letter from him describing what it was that I wanted and why I wanted it. At the time, I was on a great insurance plan offered by a major employer... and they denied me the pump not once, but twice! Explanation? I was doing fine on injections, and the $5G's they'd have to cough up would not be worth it in the long run for them. The truth of the matter is that I was doing fine on injections, but wanted the pump for convenience. Not sure what exactly came across in the letter to the insurance company... but my doc said that not only has this never happened to him, but he had never even heard of it happening for that reason!
Needless to say, I switched insurance companies (and eventually doctors)... but never did request the pump again.  | 
