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By the early twentieth century, diabetes was becoming a disease of the masses. In 1940 the famed diabetologist Elliott Joslin estimated that about one person in every three to four hundred was diabetic, representing an enormous increase from just a few decades earlier, but it was still relatively uncommon. By 1970, around the time I was born, its p
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Bob Flaws • The Tao of Healthy Eating
Thomas (Tom) F. Hornbein, M.D.: 32, San Diego, California; Physician; Responsible for Expedition oxygen equipment and planning.
Thomas F. Hornbein • Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition
The job of any doctor, Bludau later told me, is to support quality of life, by which he meant two things: as much freedom from the ravages of disease as possible and the retention of enough function for active engagement in the world. Most doctors treat disease and figure that the rest will take care of itself. And if it doesn’t—if a patient is bec
... See moreAtul Gawande • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Our patients’ lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins.