Medical school and his diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

Steve graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from Cornell University Medical College. During his last year of medical school, he went to the infirmary because he was not feeling well and suspected that he had diabetes. The physician told him that he was probably studying the chapter on diabetes that week and asked him not to worry, but ordered some laboratory tests just in case. Later that day, Steve was told that his self-diagnosis was correct. He began treatment with a sulfonylurea, but soon required insulin.

Upon his impending move to Boston to pursue research and an obstetrics and gynecology residency, he was referred to a famous endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, who told him that patients with diabetes were too difficult, and that he limited such patients in his practice for his own sanity. He told Steve that since he was going to be at the Boston Hospital for Women, he would recommend Dr Priscilla White. This not only made a difference in Steve’s life and health, but also for our discipline, because it was at that time when Steve decided to focus his intellect on the problem of diabetes in pregnancy.