Doctors and nurses

Sometimes you'll hear ambulance staff complaining about other health care "professionals". Sometimes for no reason other than the fact that we like a good whinge now and again. Sometimes there are grounds for these complaints. We were called to a gentleman who was seen earlier by a district nurse who came in to administer his medication. Somehow, she decided that the gentleman needed an insulin injection. Which is fair enough as the patient was a diabetic and normally does require his insulin. The catch was that prior to this she checked his blood sugar and found that it was quite low. Yet she STILL managed to think that it would be a good idea to give him the insulin, which brings the blood sugar level even lower. Strangely enough, the patient was not particularly well by the time we got there... I think that this is one that we're going to try to follow up.