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 | Name: Shirley Jones
Overview: Shirley Jones` parents had little money to spend on food and she remembers eating bread and jam `many, many times`. She married at 19, divorced, married again at 21, and then her second husband left her to bring up two small children alone before she was diagnosed with diabetes, aged 32. She was recruited into the UK Prospective trial for Type 2 diabetes, but rapidly became insulin-dependent. Until recently, she ran a pub with her current partner. She is now on kidney dialysis.
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|  | Name: Joe Needoff
Overview: : Dr. Joe Needoff was a GP in an old-established Black Country practice from 1951 to 1989. He had a few, mainly elderly, patients with diabetes, but issued very few prescriptions for insulin and never saw a young person with diabetes. At first he had no nurse to help him, so did urine tests himself and, when he needed a chaperone, he called on his wife or another patient. The waiting-room was often crowded, as there was no appointment system. He saw no increase in diabetes throughout his career and had no diabetic clinic: ‘there was no necessity for it.`
There is also an interview with another Black Country GP, from one generation later, Dr. Richard Gee.
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|  | Name: Margaret McKiddie
Overview: Dr. Margaret McKiddie worked in Glasgow and Dundee before becoming a consultant at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in 1973. The hospital was too small to employ someone specialising solely in diabetes, but all patients with diabetes were referred to her and her official title was Consultant Physician with a Special Interest in Diabetes. She had to teach everything to the newly-diagnosed herself until a specialist diabetic nurse was appointed in 1989, who made a `huge amazing difference` to her working life. She retired in 1998 and in 2002 she became the British National Endurance Riding Champion.
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|  | Name: Philip Newick
Overview: Philip Newick comes from a working-class Bristol family which was greatly affected by redundancies in the aircraft industry. Determined to escape such insecurity, he did a degree and postgraduate work in chemical engineering. He worked for HJ Heinz until after diagnosis, when he was told that he could no longer work abroad. He then got a job nearer to his home in Birmingham and all his treatment has been in that city. He and his wife still weigh and measure all his food and he has few health problems - apart from an inability to detect the onset of hypos.
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|  | Name: Grace
Overview: When Grace was diagnosed at the age of 15 her father was working for the Forestry Commission and they lived in a remote Suffolk wood. She was ill for months before diagnosis and thinks this was partly because they lived 4 miles from a GP and 20 miles from a hospital, and because her mother couldn`t face having another sick child after Grace`s sister died from leukaemia. Grace had early cataracts and was registered blind in her teens, but successful treatment throughout the rest of her life has meant that she has always had vision in at least one eye.
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|  | Name: Shanaz
Overview: Shanaz works as Lead Nurse/ Diabetes Specialist Nurse on the UK Asian Diabetes Study, which is investigating the benefits of providing structured care, tailored to the needs of the South Asian community. Her father came to the UK from Pakistan in 1948 and was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1960. She has two older sisters who have both developed Type 2 diabetes in recent years. The experiences of her family and of her patients have convinced her that people with diabetes can live a long healthy life, provided that they adopt a healthy diet and take exercise.
There is also an interview with her brother Mushtaq.
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