[grania]

It's appalling. This is anecdotal. Many of my friends and acquaintances are highly intelligent, highly educated folks who have take very good care of their bodies and minds. Most of them have sold out their bodies and even their minds to the insurance companies and the medical profession. They jump through all the hoops, and take every medicine and treatment they're given. It doesn't even bother them that their treatment is based on what the insurance company provides, not what's best for them.

Two new conditions that have been invented for them....pre-diabetes and early stage symptoms of possible Alzeimers or dementia. Why THE HECK would anyone allow those diagnoses to appear on their medical records?

[exDemMom]

Two new conditions that have been invented for them....pre-diabetes and early stage symptoms of possible Alzeimers or dementia. Why THE HECK would anyone allow those diagnoses to appear on their medical records?

The reason is that with proper treatment early on, the development of the full-blown conditions can be delayed and a good quality of life can be maintained for longer.

[Buttons12]

Two new conditions that have been invented for them....pre-diabetes and early stage symptoms of possible Alzeimers or dementia. Why THE HECK would anyone allow those diagnoses to appear on their medical records?

Is there a way to disallow a diagnosis on one's medical records?

[bert]

The concept of prediabetes is an indication of more or less permanent high blood sugar as indicated by an elevated A1c over a period of time.

Once the A1c level passes a point the condition is diagnosed as diabetes mellitus. The condition is real even though the induction is purely numbers derived.

Some doctors choose to not use the term prediabetes and go for the diagnosis as Type II at a lower A1c threshold. The difference is totally semantic since the remedy is the same.

For the patient, either diagnosis is a warning shot across the bow. To prevent what can be very bad conditions, a few changes are necessary to reduce the probability.

Your post is quite foolish and indicates general ignorance and bias.

[Madame Dufarge]

early stage symptoms of possible Alzeimers or dementia.

Vague enough to be assigned to patients who resist the medications and treatments shoved on them because they're billable by the doctors.