ABC-Of-Diabetes torrent

Rapid clinical advances of this magnitude require substantial
support. Diabetes UK, founded as the Diabetic Association by
Dr RD Lawrence and his patient HG Wells in 1934 (later the
British Diabetic Association), has uniquely supported both
patients and their needs as well as clinical and scientific
research. More recently the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation has
made substantial contributions. Furthermore the
pharmaceutical industry has been both innovative in its own
laboratories as well as supportive of both patients and clinicians.
It gives particular pleasure to reproduce some parts of the
personal account by Mrs B-J (with her permission) of her own
diabetes over the last 70 years of attendances at King’s College
Hospital. She describes vividly aspects of treatment and some of
the problems faced by people with diabetes, and one can see
clearly how many improvements there have been during her
lifetime. Her account should give tremendous encouragement
to those now starting on their own life with diabetes.
The ABC is intended as a strictly practical guide to the
management of diabetes and its complications and is directed
to all those doctors, nurses, and health professionals, other
than established specialists, who see diabetic patients, and
medical students should find some value in its pages. Many of
the innovations of the end of the 20th century are described in
this fifth edition of the ABC in the hope that it will help in the
delivery of the very best standards of care to those who need it
in the 21st century.