Like a duck to water
JS: How long have you been working in the area of diabetes? EM: It’s been 48 years!
JS: How did you get interested in diabetes?
EM: I was influenced by my professor, Rolf Richards. But also, the emergence of knowledge that biochemical changes in the body could cause disease states, of which diabetes was a perfect example, led me to settle in this new area in the 1970s.
JS: What made you stick with it?
EM: Most important, the gratitude of the patients and the ease with which I grasped the principles of the mode of treatment as it related to the current understanding of the causes leading to the condition.
I just took to it ‘like a duck to water’, a facilitation made possible by my underpinnings
of a great depth in biological chemistry.
JS: What are your sentiments now on UDOP’s 25th anniversary of international conferencing?
EM: I have a sense of tremendous accomplishment over the years to have stuck with it, as there were times when it just didn’t seem possible to continue. However, from time to time a Good Samaritan appeared and who believed in what we were doing. Often I was encouraged not to watch the costs, but rather the outcome of better knowledge and cooperation among the persons so afflicted, as well as their support groups that surrounded them.
JS: Ready to go another 25 years?
EM: I guess that will go with my epitaph; which ought to read: “Sugar sugar everywhere; and resting here; is he who sought to help repair the ravages this disease did bear!”