The IDF Statement: A Big and Long-Awaited Step for Our Diabetic Patients

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Step by step. Science moves slowly; much more slowly than most people realize. Even though Alexis Carrel developed vascular surgery between 1901 and 1910, performed a coronary artery bypass graft on a dog, and won the Nobel Prize in 1912 [1], the first repair of an aortic aneurysm in a patient was not performed at the Strong Memorial Hospital until 1960. Similarly, even though Kelling performed his first laparoscopic procedure in dogs in 1902 [2], Jacabeus performed laparoscopy on humans in 1910 [3], and in 1985 Semm published over 1,000 papers on the technology [4], Eddie Joe Reddick still encountered massive criticism when he introduced laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1991 [5].

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