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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1674273" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>There's a fascinating article at the link below about how Dr Sheila Reith came up with the idea of pens to help her T1 daughter, came up with a few prototypes, went through a whole lot of politics, got some designers on board, came up with Penject, then Hypoguard got involved in making it. </p><p></p><p>Dr Reith is why we've got pens. Sure, someone else would have done it if she hadn't, but she started it. </p><p></p><p>Love this quote from the article:</p><p></p><p>it was all very tricky,” Dr Reith explains. “I remember finding myself in the ladies loo at Euston station, trying to give my daughter an insulin injection. I said to myself: ‘This is absurd! We ought to have a simple injection device that takes insulin cartridges. We must make this easier for people’.” </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News/Diabetes-Technology?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Read+more+»&utm_content=July+2014+e-newsletter&utm_campaign=Read+more+»" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News/Diabetes-Technology?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Read+more+»&utm_content=July+2014+e-newsletter&utm_campaign=Read+more+»</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1674273, member: 374531"] There's a fascinating article at the link below about how Dr Sheila Reith came up with the idea of pens to help her T1 daughter, came up with a few prototypes, went through a whole lot of politics, got some designers on board, came up with Penject, then Hypoguard got involved in making it. Dr Reith is why we've got pens. Sure, someone else would have done it if she hadn't, but she started it. Love this quote from the article: it was all very tricky,” Dr Reith explains. “I remember finding myself in the ladies loo at Euston station, trying to give my daughter an insulin injection. I said to myself: ‘This is absurd! We ought to have a simple injection device that takes insulin cartridges. We must make this easier for people’.” [URL]https://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News/Diabetes-Technology?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Read+more+»&utm_content=July+2014+e-newsletter&utm_campaign=Read+more+»[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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