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Innocence revisited

A case of high stakes riding on results

Pat Phillips
Abstract
Some patients will go to great lengths to get the results they need, as Dr Phillips recalls in this case of a man with diabetes.
Key Points

    Mr C, a taxi driver who had type 1 diabetes, had made an appointment with me so that I could complete his application for a commercial driving licence. Reluctantly, I had to tell him that I couldn’t state that his diabetes was well controlled because his A1c was 10.5%, indicating that his average blood glucose level was in the mid teens.

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