quotable quotes - Late November 2014
“We’re now talking about cars that can drive themselves, package delivery via drones, yet diabetes devices are still on years-old technology… People with diabetes deserve 21st century technology.”
– Steven Shaul (type 1 diabetes patient)
“I believe that the greatest challenge to providing good quality medical care to everybody who needs it is that we have too much disease in our nation and it is occurring too early in life. So we need to make it fun to be active, not a chore.”
– Dr. Jim Marks (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) in diaTribe’s interview with this illustrious leader at the Boston Obesity Week Conference last month.
"[The Nov. 3 #DOCasksFDA meeting] was really really successful - so successful that it shut down the FDA system."
– Dr. Stayce Beck (FDA Branch Chief, Diagnostic Devices) at the Diabetes Mine Innovation Summit.
"Insulin is like no other medication in that it is so dangerous, and yet we let patients go out and determine their own dose. No other medication is like that.”
– Dr. David Klonoff (Mills-Peninsula Health Services) at an FDA workshop on insulin bolus calculators.
"The experts on diabetes are the people with diabetes. There is power there. We need to use it. We have so much power!"
– Rebecca Killion (type 1 patient) at the Diabetes Mine Innovation Summit.