quotable quotes - December 2008
diabetes education
“I think most of you have seen Legally Blonde and remember when Elle Woods stands in front of her Harvard Law School class and says, ‘We did it!’ I receive a lot of e-mails from patients, but one question I haven’t received in a long time is, ‘What is a diabetes educator?’ The public knows who we are. We did it, and we will continue doing it!”
—Janis Roszler, RD, CDE, LD/N (Dear Janis, South Florida), pointing out the advancements in diabetes education awareness during her acceptance speech for the 2008 AADE Educator of the Year Award.
the diabetes epidemic
“What AIDS was in the last 20 years of the 20th century, diabetes is going to be in the first 20 years of this century,”
—Dr. Paul Zimmet, MD, PhD (Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Australia)
the importance of insulin
“Insulin is not a last line therapy even though it has often been used that way in the past and was typically prescribed before the priest came to give last rites. More recent studies have shown that it can be used early in different ways.”
— Hertzel Gerstein, MD (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario) prefacing his discussion about the three ways to lower glucose levels during the 2008 Canadian Diabetes Association Meeting.
