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| | Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin and the Transformation of Illness |
 | | A new book examines the patients treated by diabetologist Elliot Joslin before, during, and after the discovery of insulin. |
 | | The great diabetologist Elliot Joslin, reviewing the first year of insulin use, said of his medical practice, "this past year has been among the erstwhile dead."[1] Joslin and the rest of the people treating diabetes were soon to realize that the discovery of insulin was really a tradeoff. |
 | | In place of a few years of life after the diagnosis, people with insulin-dependent diabetes would live to suffer the complications of diabetes in later years: eye disease, kidney disease, nerve disease, and heart disease. |
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