quotable quotes - May 2014
“No matter what the New York Times says, [diabetes] is a LOT of work!”
-Dr. Irl Hirsch (University of Washington, Seattle, WA) reacting to last month’s controversial New York Times article, which implied that technology that makes type 1 diabetes management easier may not be worth the cost; at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress (AACE) on May 14-18, 2014
“I don’t see on a personal level that I have any responsibility to a third party that’s trying to make a business out of insuring someone’s healthcare. My obligations are to my patients, first and foremost.”
-Dr. Alan Garber (Immediate Past AACE President) on the costs of appropriate medications at AACE 2014
“We need to look at all the data appropriately, critically, and scientifically, but let’s not overblow things.”
-Dr. Parresh Dandona (University of Buffalo, NY) on the difficulty of interpreting clinical trials at AACE 2014
“Get away from the term obesity, which really means different things to different people. It is an imprecise term, a sloppy term, and it entails some stigmatization.”
-Dr. W. Timothy Garvey (UAB, Birmingham, AL) on the AACE/ACE framework for the treatment of obesity at AACE 2014
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