Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Primum Non Nocere

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Primum Non Nocere

M aturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) encompasses a collection of distinct forms of diabetes, which are inherited in an autosomaldominant mode from the maternal or paternal side of the family or occasionally occur as a de novo mutation. All the genes involved affect either b-cell sensing or insulin secretion (1). The clinical presentations of MODY are heterogeneous, reflecting the differ...

Primum non nocere.

The attending surgeon, still dressed in his tuxedo, was clearly drunk; the patient, dressed in a revealing party gown, had also had a few drinks. I was the junior resident on surgical call. I never dared to ask how the diagnosis was made but, somehow, during the party, the surgeon learned that she had an inflamed superficial varicosity of her upper thigh. He told her that she needed to have thi...

Primum non nocere.

Primum non nocere

Primum Non Nocere