Oxford, MA is my hometown, and while it is considered by many just a "bedroom town" for Worcester, it holds and important place in the field of medicine. It is the birthplace of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, and birthplace of Elliott P. Joslin who is considered the pioneer in diabetes. He was the first doctor in the U.S. to specialize in the disease, and this distinction is the first of many “firsts” associated with him. Everyone who works in the diabetes field at some point learns about EPJ. What makes him unique is both his early interest in a little known disease and his vision as to how to treat it.

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