quotable quotes - March 2011
this one’s for the kids
“Don’t mix up evidence-based medicine with ignorance-based medicine.”
- diaTribe Advisory Board member Dr. Irl Hirsch (University of Washington, Seattle, WA), testifying in support of maintaining glucose monitoring coverage for children in the state of Washington in March.
on the appropriateness of bariatric surgery
“Bariatric surgery is an appropriate treatment for people with type 2 diabetes and obesity (BMI equal to or greater than 35) not achieving recommended treatment targets with medical therapies, especially where there are other obesity related co-morbidities. Under some circumstances people with a BMI 30-35 should be eligible for surgery.”
- A short excerpt from the International Diabetes Federation’s first position statement on bariatric surgery for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, announced on March 29th at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes (WCIDT 2011) held in New York, New York.
on the need for multidisciplinary teams in diabetes management
“If a woman comes into the hospital with breast cancer, she is seen by a multidisciplinary tumor board, including oncologists, radiologists, hematologists, and others. Why isn’t the same true for people with metabolic disorders?”
- Dr. Walter Pories (East Carolina University, Greenville, NC), raising an important question at WCIDT 2011 in New York, New York.
