Academic / research papers
What happens when patients know more than their doctors? Experiences of health interactions after diabetes patient education: a qualitative patient-led study
This research project found that people graduating from intensive patient education courses such as DAFNE emerge with disease-specific biomedical, experiential and practical knowledge that exceeds that of many healthcare professionals and that tensions can arise when generalist and even specialist doctors and nurses are not comfortable with patients who have a high level of expertise.