That night, I was taken into the emergency room and diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic in full blown ketoacidosis.

I, uh I'm a diabetic.

This is a diabetic ulcer. It's tragic.

like stents and insulin pumps for the diabetic.

We can't keep blaming our overweight and diabetic patients

What I'm about to show you is a diabetic ulcer.

Giving vampire blood to Jason Stackhouse is like giving Ho Hos to a diabetic.

Every year, thousands of cochlear implants, diabetic pumps, pacemakers and defibrillators are being implanted in people.

If you were a diabetic and you didn't have money for insulin would you steal to get the money or just die?

I got paged by the E.R. around 2 in the morning to come and see a woman with a diabetic ulcer on her foot.

We can continue to eat that delicious, convenient, tasty processed food and watch ourselves and our children grow steadily more overweight, depressed and diabetic, or . . .

This is why one in three American children or one in two, if Afroamerican or Hispanic will become diabetic and obese as children or young adults.

I think a lot of times we hear about diabetics, diabetic ulcers, we just don't connect the ulcer with the eventual treatment, which is amputation, if you can't heal it.

We will now have a simple diabetic test strip that can detect your disease in 5 minutes for 3 cents, but also tell you how to optimally cure the disease and treat it.

So why was it that, just a few nights later, as I stood in that same E.R. and determined that my diabetic patient did indeed need an amputation, why did I hold her in such bitter contempt?

There are all other sorts of applications, merging your phone and diagnostics, for example measuring your blood glucose on your iPhone and sending that, potentially, to your physician so they can better understand and you can better understand your blood sugars as a diabetic.