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A lifetime pursuit of diabetes through chance
Author(s) -
Zimmet Paul Z
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb03359.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , psychology , library science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 7/21 December 2009 191 11/12 632-636 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au Power of One The story starts in the small town of Tarnopol in Pola Jacob Zimmet, studied medicine in Vienna and gradu He returned to an unpaid position in the Tarnopo unpaid because Jewish doctors could not be “officia in Poland. Realising there was no future for him ther experienced the mounting threat of Nazism in Austr for visas to Australia and the United States in 1937. T he We the W n I took a call from MJA Editor Martin Van Der yden asking me to write a “Power of One” article for Christmas issue of the Journal, I was excited and honoured. Here was an opportunity to reflect on the drivers and influences that led me first into medicine, then diabetes and public health advocacy.