▪ Abstract This article, which is partly biographical and partly scientific, summarizes a life in
academic medicine. It relates my progress from benchside to bedside and then to academic
and research administration, and concludes with the teaching of human biology to college
undergraduates. My experience as an intern (anno 1953) treating a youngster in diabetic
ketoacidosis underscored our ignorance of the controls in human fuel metabolism.
Circulating free fatty acids were then unknown, insulin could not be measured in biologic …