My Diabetes Study Library. March 2, 2017

"The education of the diabetic continues to grow in importance. The patients have increased in number and their lives are so greatly prolonged that appreciable percentage complete their life's span. But the diabetic cannot live successfully without a knowledge of his disease and how to avoid its dangers."
(Diabetic Manual for the Mutual Use of Doctor  and Patient by Elliott Proctor Joslin. Lea & Febiger. Philadelphia. 1941)

       Education is important. There are a lot of education programs available for diabetics type 2. Every one is ready to teach idiot diabetic how to reverse diabetes type 2, what spoon to use, and how to put it into mouth. Why diabetic is idiot? Because we do not know so simple things which every baby do know. So, one session after another medical care providers spent to teach us how to eat, and ... there is no time to address to the treatment we are desperately need. I do not ask questions anymore, no one ever answered to my question. First one, diabetes type 2, what is it? Even I do not ask this question, I still have it, and I try to find the answer.
       Right now there are a lot of info available for our use.  I tried to find this info in professional publications and articles by different doctors and educators available on-line. It looks like they all copy each other, and have no one idea what they do talking about.
       I started to look at different direction, and now there are I am. It is Amazon. I buy used books on Amazon. More often it is former library books. Most of them in pretty good condition. Sometimes they do have some marks inside or highlights, but it is not so important for me. I can take it. Just Yesterday I got Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide Treatment and Management of Diabetes by C.D. Saudek, MD, R.R. Kalyani, M.D., F.L. Brancati, M.D. 2012. Book cost only $0.01 + $3.99 S&H. Book is in perfect condition. Only stamps of library. Looks no one every took it to read. It has all info I need to know why doctor Rx this medicine? Do I have another option for this condition I do have? If I do have this condition right now, what doctor, more obvious will suggest as a treatment option for me, and if this option is really good to take? Try to get answers to any of these questions when you are in clinic. I never was able to get any answer. Even doctor try very hard to answer to me, I would not be able to get the meaning of these answers.
       I try to be educated as much as I can. This is why right now my library is so reach in info, I am not sure I would be ever able to read all those thousands of pages. But I love how books sit on the shelf on left side of my desk. I am very proud of my choice and selection.
     
      My interest is in history of diabetes treatment, in history of Insulin discovery and insulin therapy. This history is still not far away from present time. The authors of first books still alive, or there are family members who remember how all this history started.  Books of this history still on market. It is less then 100 years old, so for history it is infancy. With time many of this books would be vanished, lost, or preserved and available for the very high price. Now some of them available less then $20.
    It is true that in future these books would be available in re-print. More obvious in the electron form. Still, the old fashioned books, first edition, never will lost its value. I try to collect first edition of books and publications. Right now I ordered Biography of Dr. Sir Frederich Banting. There are three of them so far. Right after his death, 1946 two books by different authors. Another one is 1984 by Michel Bliss. It is I think, almost most expensive my spending on books. $90, or $80, for each one. I even bought two of the same time, 1946 the same author, but different publisher, different editors. I am crazy for books, I always was.
     Another point of my interest, medical treatment of diabetes though the ages, one year after another, how it is changes overtime. Again, my interest is in Insulin. Why insulin is so highly avoidable by medical care? And I do not see any reason for this resistance but PROFIT. So, I try to find out when and how this resistance was developed with time. This is why I order books, professional books or books for medical care providers rather then for our diabetics education. I try to get all books from past, starting from first books of treatment with insulin. The picture is very interesting.
      Some books I oredered in double order. I simple do not remember that I already ordered this book and it is already sit on my shelf. I tried to return one of them. I took a look at the price and ... My Goodness! The price for this book is already over $2,000! Looks I got last one on the market, and now it is already rare book! So, no way I will return this book! I prefer to keep both of them. They are not $0.01 still they are less then $20.
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