TY  - JOUR
T1  - DIabetic identification card
AU  - John HJ
Y1  - 1929/06/29
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.92700520001007b
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 2168
EP  - 2169
VL  - 92
IS  - 26
N2  - Not infrequently one reads of an accident or mishap which has befallen a diabetic patient when he has had an unexpected insulin reaction. He may have become unconscious and been picked up by the police, hauled to court and charged with drunkenness; or he may suddenly have become ill while driving an automobile and may have had an attack of double vision, thus becoming a menace to traffic. Again, a diabetic person may be the victim of an accident and be rushed to a hospital, where an emergency operation is performed without the customary precautions that would ordinarily be taken in operating in the presence of diabetes. When this occurs, it is unfair not only to the patient but also to the physician in charge of his case, for if the latter knew that the patient was diabetic he would not give him an ether anesthetic, and would, moreover, take every
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.92700520001007b
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.92700520001007b
ER  -