| I'm in the US, so I also didn't vote, but I'm gonna agree with Deus that here it depends on where you go also. My first endocrinologist was an idiot, calling my diabetes mild, and trying to convince me I didn't want insulin. I left her. Fast.
I switched to an actual diabetes center, which has been way better. They do point of care a1cs, bgs, and urine tests everytime I go. If I ask, they'll give me a copy of my a1c. I met with the dietician once, which was silly cause I knew what I was doing, but she's there if someone needs her. I meet with the educator practically every time I go and we talk about hypos, pump settings, meters, sets, getting sets to stick, etc. The doctors and NPs are fantastic and will spend a lot of time going over things with me and feel comfortable teaching me to adjust my own rate. One time I showed up without my log book filled in and we talked about a faily bad low I had and driving with diabetes. The next day in the mail I got a wallet card, a log book, a coupon for glucose tabs, and brochures on hypos. It was weird in a cool kinda way. I can get samples of any type of insulin or meter I want there, and when I was talking about going on the pump the educator pulled out all the different models of pumps and let me play. They are the people that gave me the name of the counselor I went to. They introduced me to pens. I really feel like they've taught me a lot about actually living with diabetes, which is saying a lot seeing as I was a know it all when I started going there. They understand that things don't always go as planned and make adjustments for real life too.  | 
The nurse wanted to know how on earth I did it.
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