quotable quotes - April 2012
"It seems like a new day."
- Dr. Bruce Buckingham (Stanford University, Stanford, CA) on the recent responsiveness of the FDA following the move of artificial pancreas oversight to the Office of In-Vitro Diagnostics, shared at the 2012 International Clinical Diabetes Technology Meeting, April 20-21 in Los Angeles.
"If you get [your A1c] down under 6.5%, it dawns on you that you feel good. And when you get it down under 6.0%, you feel normal – and feeling normal is about 10 times better than feeling good."
- Ms. Virginia Valentine, CDE (Northside Family Medicine, Albuquerque, NM) on some of the positive feelings associated with lower A1c levels at DIA: Cardiovascular Safety and State-of-the-Art Development Issues, April 17-18 in Washington, DC.
"There is a ton of stuff to advocate for…we might not make it an equal playing field, but let's at least make it a playing field."
- Dr. Francine Kaufman (Medtronic Diabetes, Northridge, CA) on the importance of diabetes advocacy at Medtronic’s 2nd Annual Diabetes Advocate Forum, March 30 in Northridge, CA.
"All of my patients have access to my email, cell phone, however they want to contact me. Coming to this meeting, I wanted to calculate how much all this costs me. I figured that my involvement in electronic medicine is about $43,800 per year. It’s two-to-three hours every single night. It’s an unbelievable personal cost, but one I gladly give."
- Dr. Anne Peters (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) at the 2012 International Clinical Diabetes Technology Meeting, April 20-21 in Los Angeles.
