Medical Professionals of Note

[Matthew Capowski]

This thread will be used to discuss medical professionals who were part of the mainstream of medicine who had significant insights or who made important contributions to our understanding of health.

 

[Matthew Capowski]

Dr. Joseph R. Kraft (1922-2017) passed away at 95 years of age. He had a very interesting and long medical career that resulted in a deep understanding and insights into diabetes. Sadly, like many other's who followed truth wherever it took them, Dr. Kraft's eminent work went very marginalized and unrecognized.

In regards to one of his books:

Dr. Kraft’s quarter century’s devoted study of glucose metabolism and blood insulin levels before its recognition by clinicians is thoroughly elaborated and clinically correlated in his sentinel monograph.

This book presents Dr. Kraft’s exceptional cumulative experience with 14,384 oral glucose tolerance tests with insulin assays performed at St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago between 1972 and 1998 while he was the chairman of the Department of Pathology and Nuclear Medicine. No parallel experience has ever been reported. This volume provides the earliest diagnosis of prediabetes and diabetes — even when the fasting blood sugar levels have been considered to be normal.

Dr. William H. Wehrmacher

 

[Matthew Capowski]

Dr. Bernstein (born 1934) was an engineer with type 1 diabetes who was facing complications from following the conventional medical guidance on treating his condition. He took his health into his own hands and in 1969 he acquired a glucose blood testing machine (that was meant for the emergency room as home and self-glucose testing through the blood was not a thing back then). Once he had this machine he applied his meticulous intellect to understand the causes of his variations in blood sugar and he sought a solution to normalizing his blood sugar, which he found. He went on to become a medical doctor who specializes in diabetes as he was deeply concerned about changing the mainstream approach to diabetes care.

Dr. Bernstein fought hard to have self glucose-testing made available to people with diabetes, as well as promoting his research into the benefit of low-carbohydrate diets for the treatment and management of diabetes and other blood sugar related disorders.

While Dr. Bernstein may not be well versed in the traditional systems of health, his understanding of diabetes is immense and his advice to patients remains highly relevant and far more coherent than what the conventional mainstream medical advice presently is.

I first became aware of Dr. Bernstein when I was reading an old yahoo group post by Todd Caldecott where he praised Dr. Bernstein's book Diabetes Solution.

There is a Wikipedia entry for Dr. Bernstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Bernstein

And he does have his own website: http://www.diabetes-book.com/