50 years ago "Diabetes" was your diagnosis. Now, it's much more nuanced-- there's an understanding that while "high blood glucose" might be the hallmark, it's not sufficient in terms of predicting best practices and good management to leave it at that.

Type II means something very different than Type I.

Think about all of the learning challenges which used to be termed "dyslexia" for another great example.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.