A patient of the practice, a known Type 1 diabetic was quite often having hypos as he was poorly controlled. This was mostly due to the fact that he lived alone, ate erratically and administered his insulin on a very ad hoc basis.
"One Saturday morning as I was leaving the surgery the patient was lying collapsed near the gate. He was being attended by passers by who called me over to assist. I recognised him and guessed that a hypo was the cause of his inability to speak coherently and his obvious disorientation. I went back inside and grabbed some GlucoGel from the fridge."
