Missed Opportunity!
Maureen Chadwick
So today I looked for myself, via The ITV Hub, yes entertaining and funny but what an amazing diabetes health education opportunity missed.
Johnny Vegas had been approached by a ‘diabetes association’ to present at an event assuming wrongly that he lived with diabetes – he made it noticeably clear he does not.
He went on to express the trauma of every time he has a health check Health Professionals appeared disappointed by his lack of diagnosis – talk about stigma!
He laughs it off by saying ‘…… I am just a fat git!’
Then without coaxing, James Norton (actor from War and Peace BBC) shared that he does have diabetes and expresses that there are two types of diabetes – end of the conversation.
I know it was and is a light entertainment show, but I have to say I was so disappointed that more information was not revealed.
James Norton clearly a successful young actor and very obviously, diabetes aware.
If he had just been asked the right questions by Jonathon Ross, such clarity in a positive way about diabetes could have ensued.
Maybe next time!
First published LinkedIn, 31 January 2016
Follow on from my LinkedIn Article
Discussion regarding diabetes self care and empowerment
Discussing all the retraining I have done for Practice Nursing and diabetes in General Practice
