Why should a surgeon and the discipline of surgery care about diabetes?
For one thing, today we are faced with an evolving world epidemic of diabetes, a disease that is incapacitating, a major harbinger of atherosclerotic cardiovascular pathology and fatal. Few families, including those of surgeons, have not been afflicted. Medical therapy for diabetes is essentially palliative; surgical therapy has been proven to resolve, if not cure, diabetes. For this reason, many