The Chief of Services inevitably begins the year's instructions to the new medical students by teaching "a singularly important principle of medicine." He asked a nurse to get him a sample of urine. He then talked at length about diabetes mellitus. "Diabetes," he said, "is a Greek name; but the Romans noticed that the bees like the urine of diabetics, so they added the word mellitus which means sweet as honey. Well, as you know, you may find sugar in the urine of a diabetic..."
By now, the nurse...
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