i seriously doubt any doctor would think you can catch diabetes. maybe your mother misheard/misunderstood!! i hear a few family get annoyed about medics when its their own ignorance thats the problem. eg someone i know went to A+E with knee pain (no trauma, just general arthritis likely) and moaned that the A+E nurse was rubbish as she didnt x-ray him and sent him home without seeing a dr. now any sensible person knows there was nothing this poor nurse could have done for him and that he needs to see his GP. so why the dr bashing? i could paramedic bash and say my father collapsed recently but the arrogant paramedics said it was a panic attack (???) and didnt send him in to A+E. now thats stupidity, who do they think they are to think they have the knowledge base to decide this???????