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Breakthrough

Banting, Best, and the Race to Save Millions of Diabetic
May 10, 2012giraffe rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
An engaging, insightful and balanced story about the search for a treatment for sufferers of juvenile diabetes. Banting's great (and unlikely) insight about insulin, is presented in the detailed context of a larger cast of characters and the times and places in which they lived: doctors, researchers, diabetics and their parents, pharmaceutical companies, university administrators, nurses, journalists and so on. A four-star page turner that is unfortunately marred in parts by the unnecessary insertion of unbelievable imagined dialogue and ruminations that made this reader wince. Therefore only three stars.