A lifetime pursuit of diabetes through chance

Zimmet, Paul Z

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03679.x

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In reply: Dr Smolilo has challenged my claim that my father, the late Dr Jacob Zimmet, worked in a hospital in Tarnopol, Poland, and without salary, in the pre-World War II period.1 I am pleased to refute Smolilo’s inaccurate claims.

Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: paul.zimmet@bakeridi.edu.au

1. Zimmet PZ. A lifetime pursuit of diabetes through chance. Med J Aust 2009; 191: 632-636. <MJA full text>
2. Strauss HA, editor. Hostages of modernization: studies on modern antisemitism, 1870–1933/39. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1993.
3. Rutland SD. Take heart again. The story of a fellowship of Jewish Doctors. Sydney: Fellowship of Jewish Doctors of New South Wales, 1983.

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